You could always override sys.stderr with a instance of your own with a write() method. Though you will still have to catch the exceptions.
Bob Greschke wrote: > I want to cause any traceback output from my applications to show up in one > of my dialog boxes, instead of in the command or terminal window (between > running on Solaris, Linux, OSX and Windows systems there might not be any > command window or terminal window to show the traceback messages in). Do I > want to do something like override the print_exc (or format_exc?) method of > traceback to get the text of the message and call my dialog box routine? If > that is right how do I do that (monkeying with classes is all still a grey > area to me)? > > I kind of understand using the traceback module to alter the output of > exceptions that I am looking for, but I'm after those pesky ones that should > never happen. :) > > Thanks! > > Bob -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list