Question

I’m trying to find out which methods and attributes come with the mother of all exception classes in python: the Exception class. However, I’m having a bit of trouble since the official documentation doesn’t seem to provide it.

The best I could find was this: http://docs.python.org/library/exceptions.html but that only lists the built-in exceptions.

What’s going on? I’m used to the Java and PHP documentations where everything is laid down on the table 🙁

Answer 1

The built-in function dir will give a list of names comprising the methods and attributes of an object.

>>>print dir(Exception)
['__class__', '__delattr__', '__dict__', '__doc__', '__format__', '__getattribut
e__', '__getitem__', '__getslice__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__new__', '__reduc
e__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__setstate__', '__sizeof__',
'__str__', '__subclasshook__', '__unicode__', 'args', 'message']

You can also get help using the help method: help(Exception).