Python program termination and exception catching

[Laszlo Nagy]

2011.04.10. 21:25 keltezéssel, Jason Swails írta:
> Hello everyone,
>
> This may sound like a bit of a strange desire, but I want to change 
> the way in which a python program quits if an exception is not 
> caught.  The program has many different classes of exceptions (for 
> clarity purposes), and they're raised whenever something goes wrong.  
> Most I want to be fatal, but others I'd want to catch and deal with.
Well, the application quits when all of it threads are ended. Do you 
want to catch those exception only in the last threads? Or do you want 
to do it in all threads? Or just the main thread?
> Is there any way to control Python's default exit strategy when it 
> hits an uncaught exception (for instance, call another function that 
> exits "differently")?
You can try the atexit module. But I think this is not what you want. I 
don't think that exceptions can be intercepted in unusual ways. "There 
should be only one obvious way to do it". Can you please write more 
about why isn't it good to use try /except?
>
> An obvious way is to just catch every exception and manually call that 
> function, but then I fill up my script with trys and excepts which 
> hurts readability (and makes the code uglier) and quashes tracebacks; 
> neither of which I want to do.
Okay, so maybe I misunderstood. You where talking about changing the way 
in which a python program quits. Can you please come up with an example 
and explain your problem in more detail?


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