Shutdown hook

[Ben Finney]

Steve <steve.morin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does any one know if python has the ability to run a shutdown hook.

When the Python runtime system wants to exit, it raises a SystemExit
exception.

Catch that exception at the top level of your code, and do whatever
you like. (It might be polite to actually exit at some point, of
course. sys.exit(exitcode) will do so -- raising another SystemExit
exception.)

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Ben Finney