Best Way to Handle All Exceptions

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:09:06 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:

> Instead of catching *all* exceptions at a specific point in your code,
> and then having nothing to do but end the program (possibly after some
> pre-exit action like logging), I think you would be better served by
> installing a custom top-level exception handler.
...
> Any other exceptions that you don't specifically catch will then go
> through to your default handle-it-just-before-we-exit ‘sys.excepthook’
> exception handler.



Isn't that risky though? Won't that potentially change the exception-
handling behaviour of functions and classes he imports from other modules?




-- 
Steven