Checking for an exception

[D'Arcy Cain]

On 06/25/17 12:10, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
> py> isinstance(KeyboardInterrupt(), Exception)
> False
> py> isinstance(ValueError, Exception)
> False

That's because KeyboardInterrupt is not a subclass of Exception.  If you 
want to catch that as well you need to check against BaseException.

https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/exceptions.html#exception-hierarchy

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