Python 3 exception not printing new line

Question

I do not really know how to say it, but when I raise exception in python 3.2, '\n' aren't parsed...

Here is an example:

class ParserError(Exception):
    def __init__(self, message):
            super().__init__(self, message)

try:
    raise ParserError("This should have\na line break")
except ParserError as err:
    print(err)

It works like this:

$ ./test.py
(ParserError(...), 'This should have\na line break')

How do I make sure new lines are printed as new lines?

class ParserError(Exception):
    pass

or

print(err.args[1])

Answer 1

Ahh, err.message was deprecated in 2.6 - so no longer present, so...

print(err.args[1])

Answer 2

What's happening here is that the repr of your message string is being printed as part of passing the whole Exception object to print(), so the newline is being converted back into \n. If you individually print the actual string, the actual newline will print.