This method extracts the message from an exception if there
            was an exception that occurred during the test, assuming
            that the exception was in a try/except block and not thrown.

def __get_exception_message(self):
        """ This method extracts the message from an exception if there
            was an exception that occurred during the test, assuming
            that the exception was in a try/except block and not thrown. """
        exception_info = sys.exc_info()[1]
        if hasattr(exception_info, 'msg'):
            exc_message = exception_info.msg
        elif hasattr(exception_info, 'message'):
            exc_message = exception_info.message
        else:
            exc_message = '(Unknown Exception)'
        return exc_message