Gracefull application exit.

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2008-07-24 18:06, Robert Rawlins wrote:
> Chaps,
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> I'm looking to implement an exit/termination process for an application
> which can be triggered by A) a keyboard interrupt or B) termination of the
> application as a Daemon using a signal.
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> I have a whole bunch of tasks I want to perform as a cleanup before the
> application is terminated, cleaning files, database calls, closing open
> connections and a few other things.
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> I know we have:
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> # I'm the main application started method.
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> if __name__ == "__main__":
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> For starting an application, but do we have an equivalent methods for when
> an application is terminated which we can use to close down any current
> internal processes before the application exits?
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> I'd really love to have your thoughts and experience on gracefully killing
> an application.

Warp your whole application into a main() function and then use:

try:
     main()
finally:
     cleanup()

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