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Q&A How do I get the error message out of a requests exception?

I'm trying to log error messages from Requests exceptions. Example: try: make_web_request() except RequestException as ex: logging.error(ex) Example output: ERROR : ('Connection abo...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by ajv‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by hoverhell‭

Question python http-request
#1: Initial revision by user avatar ajv‭ · 2021-05-04T16:58:54Z (over 3 years ago)
How do I get the error message out of a requests exception?
I'm trying to log error messages from Requests exceptions. Example:

```python
try:
    make_web_request()
except RequestException as ex:
    logging.error(ex)
```

Example output:

```
ERROR : ('Connection aborted.', ConnectionResetError(104, 'Connection reset by peer'))
```

...okay, that's technically usable, but it's ugly. It looks more like a repr than an error message. The piece of it I actually want is the 'Connection reset by peer'. In this case I've found that I can get it with `log.error(ex.args[0].args[-1])`, but I don't think I can count on that working for other subtypes of RequestException (or even other instances of the same type).

Is there a Right Way to do this?