What's the best way to wrap a whole script in try..except?

[Hari Sekhon]

Jon Ribbens wrote:
> In article <mailman.7287.1150885369.27775.python-list at python.org>, Hari Sekhon wrote:
>   
>> I want to wrap a whole script in try ... except. What is the best way of 
>> doing this?
>>     
>
> You could do this maybe:
>
>   import sys
>
>   def excepthook(exc_type, exc_value, tb):
>     import modules_needed_to_notify_exception
>     ...
>
>   sys.excepthook = excepthook
>
>   import modules_needed_by_script
>   ...
>   
having tested this more, I was worried about a recursive call to 
exception should an exception be raised inside the function but luckily 
python deals and give you a double traceback.

batteries included indeed.

Thanks again

Hari
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