The following will work across 3 and 2 versions going back pretty far. It's necessary if you want to support pre-2.5 versions (where `as` was introduced):

The following will work across 3 and 2 versions going back pretty far. It's necessary if you want to support pre-2.5 versions (where `as` was introduced): import sys try: fn() except (IOError, TypeError): err = sys.exc_info()[1] print(err) http://docs.pythonsprints.com/python3_porting/py-porting.html#exceptions http://docs.pythonsprints.com/python3_porting/py-porting.htm...