Depending on the situation it may also be necessary to do:

try:
    ....
except db._adapter.driver.IntegrityError as e:
    db.rollback() # or db.commit()
    return str(e)




On Saturday, 11 January 2014 09:17:33 UTC-6, Anthony wrote:
>
> It depends on how the particular exception class is implemented. In 
> general, if you do str(error), you get the error message. I think in most 
> exception classes, error.args[0] is also typically the error message. This 
> is a general Python issue and not specific to web2py.
>
> try:
>     ....
> except db._adapter.driver.IntegrityError as e:
>     return str(e)
>
> Anthony
>
> On Saturday, January 11, 2014 1:55:30 AM UTC-5, software.ted wrote:
>>
>> Hi Anthony!
>>
>> Those gems we need to know!!!, since i have to extract undocumented 
>> details on this list, I would like to find out how i can then get system 
>> generated messages cause there are many integrity error 
>> descriptions...instead of me having one message like this:
>>
>> try:
>>     ...
>> except db._adapter.driver.IntegrityError:
>>     err_msg = "Duplicate record in database"
>>
>> I would like to have a situation were i can get system messages of the 
>> specific integrity error enountered:
>>
>> try:
>>     ...
>> except db._adapter.driver.IntegrityError:
>>     err_msg = db.[some object].errorMessage
>>
>>
>> Any pointers?
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Anthony <abas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Another one of our great undocumented gems. :-)
>>>
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