Ezio Melotti added the comment: > I seem to remember writing code that fished the wrapped error > out using one of those attributrs...
That would be err.reason: from urllib.request import urlopen try: urlopen('http://www.pythonfoobarbaz.org') except Exception as exc: print('err:', err) print('repr(err):', repr(err)) print('err.reason:', err.reason) print('repr(err.reason):', repr(err.reason)) prints: err: <urlopen error [Errno -2] Name or service not known> repr(err): URLError(gaierror(-2, 'Name or service not known'),) err.reason: [Errno -2] Name or service not known repr(err.reason): gaierror(-2, 'Name or service not known') ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6471> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com