# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Copyright (C) 2012 Oliver Tengler
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
"""
from typing import Optional
def exceptionAsString (limit: Optional[int]=5) -> str:
"""Prints the current exception into a string"""
import sys
import io
import traceback
exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback = sys.exc_info()
memFile = io.StringIO()
traceback.print_exception(exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback, limit=limit, file=memFile)
return memFile.getvalue()
