Adding information to an exception?

Question

I want to achieve something like this:

def foo():
   try:
       raise IOError(\'Stuff \')
   except:
       raise

def bar(arg1):
    try:
       foo()
             


        

Answer 1

I don't like all the given answers so far. They are still too verbose imho. In either code and message output.

All i want to have is the stacktrace pointing to the source exception, no exception stuff in between, so no creation of new exceptions, just re-raising the original with all the relevant stack frame states in it, that led there.

Steve Howard gave a nice answer which i want to extend, no, reduce ... to python 3 only.

except Exception as e:
    e.args = ("Some failure state", *e.args)
    raise

The only new thing is the parameter expansion/unpacking which makes it small and easy enough for me to use.

Try it:

foo = None

try:
    try:
        state = "bar"
        foo.append(state)

    except Exception as e:
        e.args = ("Appending '"+state+"' failed", *e.args)
        raise

    print(foo[0]) # would raise too

except Exception as e:
    e.args = ("print(foo) failed: " + str(foo), *e.args)
    raise

This will give you:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 6, in 
    foo.append(state)
AttributeError: ('print(foo) failed: None', "Appending 'bar' failed", "'NoneType' object has no attribute 'append'")

A simple pretty-print could be something like

print("\n".join( "-"*i+" "+j for i,j in enumerate(e.args)))