FINANCIAL MODELLING PACKAGE IN PYTHON?

[Randall Hopper]

Robin Becker:
 |Is there an obvious way to allow an extension module to write messages to
 |various fd type objects?

Do you mean, change a module that's written to dump to stdout or stderr so
that it writes to objects?  You can always replace sys.stdout/stderr
before/after calling the extension module.  Not pretty, but it works.

 |Also under certain extreme circumstances my code would like to report a
 |total failure eg attempt to divide by error. I would like to ask more
 |experienced pythoneers how arithmetic errors are handled using built in
 |IEEE exceptions and how does one gracefully crash a python script? (eg
 |an abend/abort).

raise ArithmeticError, "Oops"
raise ZeroDivisionError, "Ouch"

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