How to get date & time of exceptions in Python errors

Question

Sometimes it would be happened that my services (which started manually in tmux or screen) will be stop by getting an unknown or other kinds of exceptions that I didn't handle them. In my case date & time of exceptions event is so important.

So how to get date & time of exceptions in Python errors? Like running a service in tmux or screen and wait to see the results which it will print.

Answer 1

To solve this issue, we can try to use sys.excepthook like so:

import sys
import traceback
import datetime

def err(type, value, tb):
    print("Exception date time: {}".format(datetime.datetime.now()))
    print(traceback.print_tb(tb))

sys.excepthook = err