Accessing Error Messages

When you handle an exception, you can still access its error message like this:

try:
    # some code
except ZeroDivisionError as e:
   # some code
   print("ZeroDivisionError occurred: {}".format(e))

This would print something like this:

ZeroDivisionError occurred: integer division or modulo by zero

So you can still access error messages, even if you handle them to keep your program from crashing!

If you don't have a specific error you're handling, you can still access the message like this:

try:
    # some code
except Exception as e:
   # some code
   print("Exception occurred: {}".format(e))

Exception is just the base class for all built-in exceptions. You can learn more about Python's exceptions here .