From ca8081b7aad97289acc898e705b5c4c28b7d4637 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Wehling-Benatelli <sebastian.wehling@rub.de>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 12:38:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] debugging: return the exception text whenever an error occurs
 - makes debugging much easier

---
 pylot/core/read/data.py | 10 ++++------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pylot/core/read/data.py b/pylot/core/read/data.py
index 874c7aac..a67cc8a9 100644
--- a/pylot/core/read/data.py
+++ b/pylot/core/read/data.py
@@ -3,15 +3,13 @@
 
 import os
 
-import numpy as np
 from obspy.core import (read, Stream, UTCDateTime)
 from obspy import readEvents
 from obspy.core.event import (Event, Catalog)
 
 from pylot.core.read import readPILOTEvent
-
-from pylot.core.util import fnConstructor, createEvent, FormatError, \
-    prepTimeAxis, getGlobalTimes
+from pylot.core.util import fnConstructor, FormatError, \
+    getGlobalTimes
 
 
 class Data(object):
@@ -129,8 +127,8 @@ class Data(object):
             except TypeError:
                 try:
                     self.wfdata += read(fname, format='GSE2')
-                except Exception:
-                    warnmsg += '{0}\n'.format(fname)
+                except Exception, e:
+                    warnmsg += '{0}\n{1}\n'.format(fname, e)
         if warnmsg:
             warnmsg = 'WARNING: unable to read\n' + warnmsg
             print warnmsg