[Python-Dev] Proposal - KeyboardInterrupt should inherit directly from Exception

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
> 
>     Greg> Hmmm... does anyone else habitually write
> 
>     Greg>   if __name__ == "__main__":
>     Greg>       try:
>     Greg>           main()
>     Greg>       except KeyboardInterrupt:
>     Greg>           sys.exit("interrupted")
> 
> This suggests one other enhancement to me.  Just as raising SystemExit
> doesn't generate a traceback, perhaps the default handling of
> KeyboardInterrupt could be configurable so I could set (for example):
> 
>     sys.gen_kbi_traceback = 0
>     sys.gen_kbi_message = 0
> 
> to suppress traceback and/or message output without having to do
> explicitly catch it.  The default for both would be 1 to remain
> compatible with current behavior.  If you caught the exception, these
> would have no effect.

Isn't this already possible using one of the display hooks in
sys, e.g. sys.excepthook() ?!

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