Example of catching exceptions, log them, and continue execution

logging_utils.py

import sys
import traceback
import logging

def setup_logging_to_file(filename):
    logging.basicConfig( filename=filename,
                         filemode='w',
                         level=logging.DEBUG,
                         format= '%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s',
                       )

def extract_function_name():
    """Extracts failing function name from Traceback

    by Alex Martelli
    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2380073/\
    how-to-identify-what-function-call-raise-an-exception-in-python
    """
    tb = sys.exc_info()[-1]
    stk = traceback.extract_tb(tb, 1)
    fname = stk[0][3]
    return fname

def log_exception(e):
    logging.error(
    "Function {function_name} raised {exception_class} ({exception_docstring}): {exception_message}".format(
    function_name = extract_function_name(), #this is optional
    exception_class = e.__class__,
    exception_docstring = e.__doc__,
    exception_message = e.message))

main.py

import exceptions
import sys, os

from logging_utils import setup_logging_to_file, log_exception  

from my_module import my_function_1, my_function_2

if __name__ == "__main__":

    setup_logging_to_file("main.log")

    try:
        my_function_1()
    except exceptions.Exception as e:
        # we do not want to stop execution, just log and continue
        log_exception(e)

    try:
        my_function_2()
    except exceptions.Exception as e:
        log_exception(e)

    def my_function_1_wrapper():
        my_function_1()

    # in this case the log message is logging the wrapper as function name
    try:
        my_function_1_wrapper()
    except exceptions.Exception as e:
        log_exception(e)

my_module.py

import exceptions

class MyException(exceptions.Exception):
    """This is my own Exception"""

def my_function_1():
    raise exceptions.IndexError("Some indexing error")

def my_function_2():
    e = MyException("Something went quite wrong")
    raise e

http://zonca.github.io/2013/10/how-to-log-exceptions-in-python.html

Doesn't work.
I am getting the following error
Traceback (most recent call last): File "[path to my python file]", line 69, in <module> log_exception(e) File "[path to my parent directory]/logging_utils.py", line 29, in log_exception exception_message = e.message)) AttributeError: 'RequestError' object has no attribute 'message'