Store exception body in a variable

Question

Is there a way to execute the try and return the body of the error as a variable?

i.e.

 var = '' try: error generating code except: var = exception_body 

Answer 1

Yes, use as except syntax:

 try: raise Exception("hello world") except Exception as x: print(x) 

In earlier versions of Python, this would be written except Exception, x: which you may see from time to time.