From 8d4e702d895534d364bc99669672a420ddd6bdb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "patchback[bot]" <45432694+patchback[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:20:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [PR #11340/a0d3bac8 backport][stable-12] cronvar: simplify
 exception raise - remove import sys (#11348)

cronvar: simplify exception raise - remove import sys (#11340)

* cronvar: simplify exception raise - remove import sys

* add changelog frag

(cherry picked from commit a0d3bac88cb84253bcb25f4ff1f7c6e2fb629eb2)

Co-authored-by: Alexei Znamensky <103110+russoz@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 changelogs/fragments/11340-cronvar-simplify-exc.yml | 2 ++
 plugins/modules/cronvar.py                          | 5 ++---
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 changelogs/fragments/11340-cronvar-simplify-exc.yml

diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/11340-cronvar-simplify-exc.yml b/changelogs/fragments/11340-cronvar-simplify-exc.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e50cbd39bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/11340-cronvar-simplify-exc.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - cronvar - simplify handling unknown exceptions (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11340).
diff --git a/plugins/modules/cronvar.py b/plugins/modules/cronvar.py
index 147891e58e..01dfe0b8b8 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/cronvar.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/cronvar.py
@@ -101,7 +101,6 @@ import platform
 import pwd
 import re
 import shlex
-import sys
 import tempfile
 from shlex import quote as shlex_quote
 
@@ -162,7 +161,7 @@ class CronVar:
                 # cron file does not exist
                 return
             except Exception as e:
-                raise CronVarError("Unexpected error:", sys.exc_info()[0]) from e
+                raise CronVarError(f"Unexpected error: {e}", type(e)) from e
         else:
             # using safely quoted shell for now, but this really should be two non-shell calls instead.  FIXME
             (rc, out, err) = self.module.run_command(self._read_user_execute(), use_unsafe_shell=True)
@@ -219,7 +218,7 @@ class CronVar:
             # cron file does not exist
             return False
         except Exception as e:
-            raise CronVarError("Unexpected error:", sys.exc_info()[0]) from e
+            raise CronVarError(f"Unexpected error: {e}", type(e)) from e
 
     def parse_for_var(self, line):
         lexer = shlex.shlex(line)