"Stolker, Wim" <w.t.stolker@getronics.com> writes:

I do not know how the exceptions are named. If I catch the exception with a general 'except:' statement it works but I cannot see the info from the exception,

sys.exc_* should work, as in import sys try: raise "Blubber" except: print "Exception type %s" % sys.exc_type print "Exception value %s" % sys.exc_value -- http://www.jquade.de/ For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H L Mencken