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Re: Exception Messages

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On Monday, October 15, 2012 1:34:24 PM UTC-4, MRAB wrote:
> On 2012-10-15 18:18, Wanderer wrote:
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> > On Monday, October 15, 2012 12:34:53 PM UTC-4, MRAB wrote:
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> >> Yes, but you've put the message in msg, and Exception doesn't have that
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> >> attribute.
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> > That's weird. I got this Exception class definition idea from this post by Guido van Rostrum, Where he gives this main function to look like
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> > import sys
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> > import getopt
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> >
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> > class Usage(Exception):
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> >      def __init__(self, msg):
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> >          self.msg = msg
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> >
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> > def main(argv=None):
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> >      if argv is None:
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> >          argv = sys.argv
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> >      try:
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> >          try:
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> >              opts, args = getopt.getopt(argv[1:], "h", ["help"])
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> >          except getopt.error, msg:
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> >               raise Usage(msg)
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> >          # more code, unchanged
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> >      except Usage, err:
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> >          print >>sys.stderr, err.msg
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> >          print >>sys.stderr, "for help use --help"
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> >          return 2
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> >
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> > if __name__ == "__main__":
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> >      sys.exit(main())
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> > http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=4829
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> Note how it explicitly prints err.msg.

Not in the raise statement. 

Adding the def __str__ made it work for me.
Thanks

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Exception Messages Wanderer <wanderer@dialup4less.com> - 2012-10-15 09:00 -0700
  Re: Exception Messages MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-10-15 17:17 +0100
    Re: Exception Messages John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2012-10-15 16:22 +0000
      Re: Exception Messages MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-10-15 17:34 +0100
        Re: Exception Messages Wanderer <wanderer@dialup4less.com> - 2012-10-15 10:18 -0700
          Re: Exception Messages Wanderer <wanderer@dialup4less.com> - 2012-10-15 10:20 -0700
          Re: Exception Messages Wanderer <wanderer@dialup4less.com> - 2012-10-15 10:20 -0700
          Re: Exception Messages MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-10-15 18:34 +0100
            Re: Exception Messages Wanderer <wanderer@dialup4less.com> - 2012-10-15 10:44 -0700
            Re: Exception Messages Wanderer <wanderer@dialup4less.com> - 2012-10-15 10:44 -0700
        Re: Exception Messages Wanderer <wanderer@dialup4less.com> - 2012-10-15 10:18 -0700
      Re: Exception Messages Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-10-15 12:42 -0400
      Re: Exception Messages Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-10-15 15:15 -0400
  Re: Exception Messages Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-10-16 00:47 +0000

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