On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Will Woods <wwoods@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey all - here is a quick note about the various ways to exit python > programs. Consider this a suggestion for a future CodingStyle / New > Developer FAQ, or something. > > > sys.exit(returncode) really just does: > raise SystemExit(returncode) > So we can use that rather than importing sys just for sys.exit(). > > Note that SystemExit is a subclass of Exception, so if you're handling > Exception anywhere, you're going to catch SystemExit/sys.exit(). > (This is another reason 'except Exception: ..." is a bad idea.) Thanks for the tip. Perhaps you should add that SystemExit is a subclass of BaseException and not Exception starting Python 2.5 [1]. [1] http://docs.python.org/library/exceptions.html#exceptions.SystemExit (Thanks to Nick Coghlan for pointing this to me when i shared your tip on twitter). Cheers, Amit. -- http://echorand.me _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
