Catching exception the proper way in Python: finding out the exception name

catching_exceptions.py

try:
  # Code here
except Exception as ex:
  template = "An exception of type {0} occured. Arguments:\n{1!r}"
  message = template.format(type(ex).__name__, ex.args)
  print(message)
  # Here you can do post-mortem analysis, present GUI error message, etc.