Question

I use this code to catch an exception and print a stack trace:

def logerr(stmt, e):
    try:
        do_something()
    except:
        print('##EXCEPTION in logging: ')
        exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback = sys.exc_info()
        traceback.print_exception(exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback, file=sys.stdout)

I get a result like:

##EXCEPTION in logging: 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\amurty\Desktop\dev\eclipse\workspace\hhs\FeedSearch\src\main\main.py", line 18, in main
    log()
TypeError: log() takes exactly 1 argument (0 given)

But I want the stack trace to have extra indentation, like so:

##EXCEPTION in logging: 
        Traceback (most recent call last):
          File "C:\Users\amurty\Desktop\dev\eclipse\workspace\hhs\FeedSearch\src\main\main.py", line 18, in main
            log()
        TypeError: log() takes exactly 1 argument (0 given)

How can I achieve this? Will the pprint or textwrap modules help here ?

Answer 1

try this:

import traceback

def logerr(stmt, e):
    try:
        ##do something

    except:
        print '##EXCEPTION in logging: '
        for line in traceback.format_exception().splitlines():
            print '        ' + line