Re:Handling exceptions in Python like a pro
by gorpovitch on Thursday May 20, 2021 @02:38AM
(#27218097)
When using a tool like Sentry, you might want to logger.exception(e) instead of a string error message, that way the whole stack trace with helpful debugging information (local variables...) is included in Sentry.
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Re:Handling exceptions in Python like a pro
by tmarice on Thursday May 20, 2021 @04:05AM
(#27218622)
logger.exception is basically a shortcut for logger.error(exc_info=True), so there's no need for explicitly assigning e as an error message.
And if you look carefully you’ll find that doing logger.exception(e) will just cast e as a string, which is just the message in the e. So you end up just sending the message twice (along with the stack trace).
Instead you can do logger.exception(“something helpful to give a little more context at a glance”)