global exception catching OR exitfunc

[Hilbert]

Thanks for the info!
atexit does just what I needed!

Thanks,
Hilbert

"george young" <gry at ll.mit.edu> wrote in message
news:20030227110707.6496d60c.gry at ll.mit.edu...
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 22:10:30 -0800
> "Hilbert" <hilbert at microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to catch a "global" exception in a python
> > program (meaning that if there would be an error
> > during execution it could call a function before exiting)?
> >
> > I have a program that creates large temp files and in case
> > of any unforseen problems I still need to clean up before
> > exiting.
>
> It sounds like you want sys.exitfunc, e.g.:
>
> def delete_temp_files():
> os.remove(temp1)
> os.remove(temp2)
>
> import sys
> sys.exitfunc = delete_temp_files
>
>
> or in 2.x do something like:
>
> def delete_temp_files(*tf):
> for f in tf:
> os.remove(f)
> import atexit
> atexit.register(delete_temp_files, temp1, temp1)
>
> See:
>    http://www.python.org/doc/2.3a2//lib/module-atexit.html
>
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