Let's create a decently complicated stacktrace, in order to demonstrate that we get the full stacktrace:
def raise_error():
raise RuntimeError('something bad happened!')
def do_something_that_might_error():
raise_error()
A best practice is to have a logger set up for your module. It will know the name of the module and be able to change levels (among other attributes, such as handlers)
import logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
And we can use this logger to get the error:
try:
do_something_that_might_error()
except Exception as error:
logger.exception(error)
Which logs:
ERROR:__main__:something bad happened!
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module>
File "<stdin>", line 2, in do_something_that_might_error
File "<stdin>", line 2, in raise_error
RuntimeError: something bad happened!
And so we get the same output as when we have an error:
>>> do_something_that_might_error()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "<stdin>", line 2, in do_something_that_might_error
File "<stdin>", line 2, in raise_error
RuntimeError: something bad happened!
If you really just want the string, use the traceback.format_exc
function instead, demonstrating logging the string here:
import traceback
try:
do_something_that_might_error()
except Exception as error:
just_the_string = traceback.format_exc()
logger.debug(just_the_string)
Which logs:
DEBUG:__main__:Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module>
File "<stdin>", line 2, in do_something_that_might_error
File "<stdin>", line 2, in raise_error
RuntimeError: something bad happened!