Converting Exception to a string in Python 3

Question

does anyone have an idea, why this Python 3.2 code

try:    
    raise Exception(\'X\')
except Exception as e:
    print(\"Error {0}\".format(str(e)))
         


        

Answer 1

In Python3, string does not have such attribute as encoding. It's always unicode internally. For encoded strings, there are byte arrays:

s = "Error {0}".format(str(e)) # string
utf8str = s.encode("utf-8") # byte array, representing utf8-encoded text