On 17Nov2012 03:12, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info>
wrote:
| Oh for the day I can drop support for Python 2.4 and 2.5...
|
|
| I have some code that needs to run in any version of Python from 2.4
| onwards. Yes, it must be a single code base.
|
| I wish to catch an exception and bind the exception to a name.
|
| In Python 2.6 onwards, I can do:
|
| try:
| something()
| except Exception as err:
| process(err)
|
| But in 2.4 and 2.5 "as err" gives me a SyntaxError, and I have to write:
|
| try:
| something()
| except Exception, err:
| process(err)
|
|
| Is there some other trick to grab the current exception from inside an
| except block?
sys.exc_info ?
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