ansible/docs/docsite/rst/dev_guide/testing/sanity/no-get-exception.rst

Sanity Tests » no-get-exception
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We created a function, ``ansible.module_utils.pycompat24.get_exception`` to
help retrieve exceptions in a manner compatible with Python-2.4 through
Python-3.6.  We no longer support Python-2.4 and Python-2.5 so this is
extraneous and we want to deprecate the function.  Porting code should look
something like this:

.. code-block:: python

    # Unfixed code:
    try:
        raise IOError('test')
    except IOError:
        e = get_excetion()
        do_something(e)
    except:
        e = get_exception()
        do_something_else(e)

    # After fixing:
    try:
        raise IOError('test')
    except IOErrors as e:
        do_something(e)
    except Exception as e:
        do_something_else(e)