Catch anything and save it into a variable

Question

I'm wondering if there is a keyword for "all" in python except. I've ran into this seemingly simple problem:

try:
    #do stuff
except any as error:
    print('error: {err}'.format(err=error))

I know that you can do except: to catch all errors, but I don't know how to add an as keyword to get a printable object. I want to catch any error and be able to get an object for use in printing or something else.

Answer 1

You can catch almost anything this way:

try:
    #do stuff
except Exception as error:
    print('error: {err}'.format(err=error))

But to catch really everything, you can do this:

import sys

try:
    #do stuff
except:
    err_type, error, traceback = sys.exc_info()
    print('error: {err}'.format(err=error))