Catching a non-Exception object (KeyboardInterrupt)

[Duncan Booth]

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic at xemacs.org> wrote:

> Michael Goerz <answer654 at 8439.e4ward.com> writes:
> 
>> when I try to catch ctrl+c with
>>
>> except KeyboardInterrupt:
>>
>> pychecker tells me
>>
>> Catching a non-Exception object (KeyboardInterrupt)
> 
> Looks like a pychecker bug.  It might be confused by KeyboardInterrupt
> being derived not from Exception, but from BaseException.
> 

There's a patch for this see: 
https://thomas.apestaart.org/thomas/trac/changeset/938?format=diff&new=938 
but it looks like pychecker isn't being maintained because nothing has 
changed for more than 2 years.