Print original exception in excepthook

Question

I am setting the sys.excepthook so that I can log every exception that occurs. Instead of writing to a log, let's use the following example:

def excepthook(self, type_, value, traceback):
    print "\n"
    print type_
    print value
    print traceback
    print "\n"

sys.excepthook = self.excepthook

Now let's say I create a type error, like so:

print 3 + str(2)

Without being caught, this goes into the excepthook and properly prints out the 3 variables:

<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>
unsupported operand type(s) for +
<traceback object at 0x02BAE800>

What I would like to do, is have it ALSO print out the full Exception that was sent to the excepthook (so, in this case, a TypeException). In other words, I'd like it to also display the following information).

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "testcidnelite.py", line 13, in <module>
    print 3 + str(2)
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'str'

If I add the following line:

raise

it will display the exception properly; however, it will also display an error with the term raise:

Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\psi-test-automation\Selenium\TestMethods2.py", line 145, in  excepthook
    raise
TypeError: exceptions must be old-style classes or derived from BaseException, not NoneType 

Altering it to:

raise type_

Will print out the following error:

Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\psi-test-automation\Selenium\TestMethods2.py", line 145, in excepthook
    raise type_
TypeError

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "testcidnelite.py", line 13, in <module>
    print 3 + str(2)
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'str'

I want it to print out only the 2nd chunk (the original exception). Is this possible?

Answer 1

You can use Python's traceback module to format an exception.

from traceback import format_exception

def excepthook(self, type_, value, traceback):
    print format_exception(type_, value, traceback)

sys.excepthook = self.excepthook

Check out the official documentation for more information and examples.