[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I usually have a function like this: > > def get_excinfo_str(): > """return exception stack trace as a string""" > (exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback) = sys.exc_info() The parens here can be skipped: exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback = sys.exc_info() > formatted_excinfo = traceback.format_exception(exc_type, exc_value, > exc_traceback) > excinfo_str = "".join(formatted_excinfo)
> del exc_type > del exc_value > del exc_traceback The three del lines above don't do anything (the return decrefs the locals). > return(excinfo_str) The parens here can be skipped as well: return excinfo_str -- --Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list