Interim checkin while straightening out exceptions. The last_error bit reminded me of the

thing I hated most about Microsoft SDK/DDK programming (that being, last_error and inconsistant
error handling), so it had to go.

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diff --git a/cobbler/cobbler_exception.py b/cobbler/cobbler_exception.py
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+"""
+Custom error for fatal cobbler exceptions that come with human readable error messages.
+These can be caught and printed without stack traces.
+
+Michael DeHaan <mdehaan@redhat.com>
+"""
+
+import exceptions
+import cobbler_msg
+
+class CobblerException(exceptions.Exception):
+
+   def __init__(self, value, args=[]):
+       if type(args) == str or type(args) == int:
+           args = (args)
+       self.value = cobbler_msg.lookup(value) % args
+
+   def __str__(self):
+       return repr(self.value)
+