sys.excepthook and threads

[Jonathan Ellis]

I'm running into the same problem Chuck did 1.5 years ago.  Can anyone
shed any light on why threads ignore sys.excepthook?  Is there a better
workaround than the following?  (prefixing whitespace with . to prevent
google from munching it)

import sys
from threading import Thread

def MyHandler(typ, exc, tb):
.   print 'caught exception'

run_old = getattr(Thread, 'run')
def run(self, *args, **kargs):
.   try:
.       run_old(self, *args, **kargs)
.   except:
.       MyHandler(*sys.exc_info())
setattr(Thread, 'run', run)

-Jonathan

Chuck Esterbrook wrote:
> Is there a reason why sys.excepthook does not get invoked by threads
> (other than the main thread)?
>
> The program below does not output 'caught exception', but will if
> Raise() is called directly. Tested on Python 2.2.2 and 2.3a2. A quick

> search of c.l.p showed mention of this, but no explanation.  I'm just

> curious.
>
> BTW the docs for sys.excepthook don't mention this phenomena at all.
> They say "When an exception is raised and uncaught, the interpreter
> calls sys.excepthook with three arguments" so that's what I expected,

> threads or not.
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> def MyHandler(typ, exc, tb):
>     print 'caught exception'
>
> import sys
> sys.excepthook = MyHandler
>
> from threading import Thread
>
> def Raise():
>     assert 0
>
> if 1:
>     Thread(target=Raise).start()
> else:
>     Raise()
> -----------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> -- 
> Chuck
> http://ChuckEsterbrook.com