Extract traceback info from an exception object

Question

Given an Exception object (of unknown origin) is there way to obtain its traceback? I have code like this:

def stuff():
   try:
       .....
       return us         


        

Answer 1

A way to get traceback as a string from an exception object in Python 3:

import traceback

# `e` is an exception object that you get from somewhere
traceback_str = ''.join(traceback.format_tb(e.__traceback__))

traceback.format_tb(...) returns a list of strings. ''.join(...) joins them together. For more reference, please visit: https://docs.python.org/3/library/traceback.html#traceback.format_tb