cleanup in sys.excepthook?
MRAB
python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Wed Sep 23 11:54:19 EDT 2009
akonsu wrote:
> hello,
>
> my script creates files that i need to delete if an exception is
> thrown.
>
> is this a good pythonic style to do this kind of cleanup in
> sys.excepthook instead of inside except clause of a try block?
>
Speaking personally, I'd do the cleanup in the except clause if they
needed to be deleted only if there was an exception; I'd use a finally
clause or a 'with' context if they always had to be deleted, whether
there was an exception or not.
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