How to print an exception in Python 3?

Question

Right now, I catch the exception in the except Exception: clause, and do print(exception). The result provides no information since it always prints <class'Exception'>. I knew this used to work in python 2, but how do I do it in python3?

Answer 1

To print an exception in Python 3 you need to assign the Exception to a variable. As shown in the Python 3 tutorial:

def fails():

x = 1 / 0 

try: 

fails() 

except Exception as ex: 

print(ex)

Answer 2

Syntax errors, also known as parsing errors, are perhaps the most common kind of complaint you get while you are still learning Python:

>>> while True print('Hello world')
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    while True print('Hello world')
                   ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax