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RE: Redirecting STDOUT to a Python Variable

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Hans Mulder wrote:
> On 22/09/12 23:57:52, ross.marsden@gmail.com wrote:
> > To capture the traceback, so to put it in a log, I use this
> >
> > import traceback
> >
> > def get_traceback(): # obtain and return the traceback
> >     exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback = sys.exc_info()
> >     return ''.join(traceback.format_exception(exc_type, exc_value,
> exc_traceback))
> 
> This could be coded more succinctly as
> 
> import sys, traceback
> 
> def get_traceback(): # obtain and return the traceback
>     return ''.join(traceback.format_exception(*sys.exc_info()))

Why not just use?

      return traceback.format_exc()

> 
> > Suppose I have a script run by the scheduler, this captures the traceback
> form any problems and emails them.
> >
> > if __name__ == '__main__':
> >     try:
> >         Runs_unattended()
> >     except:
> >         send_mail(send_from = yourEmailAddress,
> >               send_to = [ yourEmailAddress ], subject = 'Runs_unattended',
> >               text = '%s' % get_traceback(),
> >               files = [], server=yourLocalSMTP)
> 
> Errhm, '%s' % get_traceback() is equiavalent to get_traceback()
> How about:
> 
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>     try:
>         Runs_unattended()
>     except:
>         send_mail(send_from = yourEmailAddress,
>               send_to = [ yourEmailAddress ],
>               subject = 'Runs_unattended',
>               text = get_traceback(),
>               files = [],
>               server=yourLocalSMTP)
> 

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Re: Redirecting STDOUT to a Python Variable ross.marsden@gmail.com - 2012-09-22 14:57 -0700
  Re: Redirecting STDOUT to a Python Variable Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> - 2012-09-23 09:38 +0200
    RE: Redirecting STDOUT to a Python Variable "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2012-09-27 17:09 +0000

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