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import sys
[docs]def get_exception():
"""Get the current exception.
This code needs to work on Python 2.4 through 3.x, so we cannot use
"except Exception, e:" (SyntaxError on Python 3.x) nor
"except Exception as e:" (SyntaxError on Python 2.4-2.5).
Instead we must use ::
except Exception:
e = get_exception()
"""
return sys.exc_info()[1]