Get exception description and stack trace which caused an exception, all as a string

Question

I\'ve seen a lot of posts about stack trace and exceptions in Python. But haven\'t found what I need.

I have a chunk of Python 2.7 code that may raise an exception.

Answer 1

For Python 3.5+:

So, you can get the stacktrace from your exception as from any other exception. Use traceback.TracebackException for it (just replace ex with your exception):

print("".join(traceback.TracebackException.from_exception(ex).format())

An extended example and other features to do this:

import traceback

try:
    1/0
except Exception as ex:
    print("".join(traceback.TracebackException.from_exception(ex).format()) == traceback.format_exc() == "".join(traceback.format_exception(type(ex), ex, ex.__traceback__))) # This is True !!
    print("".join(traceback.TracebackException.from_exception(ex).format()))

The output will be something like this:

True
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "untidsfsdfsdftled.py", line 29, in 
    1/0
ZeroDivisionError: division by zero