no traceback??

Rainy sill at optonline.net
Tue Jul 24 18:17:03 EDT 2001


On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 07:49:12 GMT, Tim Hammerquist <tim at vegeta.ath.cx> wrote:
> Me parece que Rainy <sill at optonline.net> dijo:
>> Well, I'm asking in a general way, i.e. why could there be no traceback or
>> error? This is not right. I mean, if a program runs into a problem, it should
>> print some sort of feedback, at worst, a segfault? I haven't run into cases
>> like this before when *NOTHING* is printed. In general, what sort of errors
>> just quit silently?
> 
> I would guess that it _is_ raising an exception, but it's caught at some
> point up in the call chain by an 'except: pass' clause.  What happens

Nope, I looked for that..

> right before the invisible error?  What is it doing at that point?

I believe it was caused by termios.SOMETHING access which is good for
2.1 but in 2.0 it should be TERMIOS.SOMETHING. I still don't understand
why it didn't give any error but I fixed that..

> 


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