Get the error code from tweepy exception instance

How about this?

except tweepy.TweepError as e:
    print e.message[0]['code']  # prints 34
    print e.args[0][0]['code']  # prints 34

Every well-behaved exception derived from the base Exception class has an args attribute (of type tuple) that contains arguments passed to that exception. Most of the time only one argument is passed to an exception and can be accessed using args[0].

The argument Tweepy passes to its exceptions has a structure of type List[dict]. You can get the error code (type int) and the error message (type str) from the argument using this code:

e.args[0][0]['code']
e.args[0][0]['message']

The TweepError exception class also provides several additional helpful attributes api_code, reason and response. They are not documented for some reason even though they are a part of public API.

So you can get the error code (type int) also using this code:

e.api_code

History:

The error code used to be accessed using e.message[0]['code'] which no longer works. The message attribute has been deprecated in Python 2.6 and removed in Python 3.0. Currently you get an error 'TweepError' object has no attribute 'message'.