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I'm wondering how I can catch any raised object (i.e. a type that does not extend Exception ), and still get a reference to it. I came across the desire to do this when using Jython. When calling a Java method, if that method raises an exception, it will not extend Python's Exception class, so a block like this will not catch it: try: # some call to a java lib that raises an exception here except Exception, e: # will never be entered I can do this, but then I have no access to the exception object that was raised. try: # some call to a java lib that raises an exception here except: # will enter here, but there's no reference to the exception that was raised I can solve this by importing the Java exception type and catching it explicitly, but this makes it difficult/impossible to write generic exception handling wrappers/decorators. Is there a way to catch some arbitrary exception and still get a reference to it in the except block? I should note that I'm hoping for the exception handling decorator I am making to be usable with Python projects, not just with Jython projects. I'd like to avoid importing java.lang.Exception because that just makes it Jython-only. For example, I figure I can do something like this (but I haven't tried it), but I'd like to avoid it if I can. try: # some function that may be running jython and may raise a java exception except (Exception, java.lang.Exception), e: # I imagine this would work, but it makes the code jython-only

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