Nandakumar Chandrasekhar <navanitach...@gmail.com> writes: > Dear Folks, > > In previous versions of Python I used to use e.message() to print out > the error message of an exception like so: > > try: > result = x / y > except ZeroDivisionError, e: > print e.message() > > Unfortunately in Python 2.6 the message method is deprecated. > > Is there any replacement for the message method in Python 2.6 or is > there any best practice that should be used in Python from now on?
You can just use the __str__() method of the BaseException object for this. So instead of print e.message You can write print str(e) which in turn is equivalent to print e For more details see PEP 352 (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0352/) -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list