python: How do I know what type of exception occurred?

Question

I have a function called by the main program:

try:
    someFunction()
except:
    print \"exception happened!\"

but in the middle of the ex

Answer 1

try: someFunction() except Exception, exc:

#this is how you get the type
excType = exc.__class__.__name__

#here we are printing out information about the Exception
print 'exception type', excType
print 'exception msg', str(exc)

#It's easy to reraise an exception with more information added to it
msg = 'there was a problem with someFunction'
raise Exception(msg + 'because of %s: %s' % (excType, exc))