[Tutor] finally without try or except

[Prasad, Ramit]

[snip]

> >> This will be the most robust as it will
> >> also work for cases where the program is terminated without the use of
> >> the keyboard (i.e. kill -9, task manager, computer reboot, etc.)  but
> 
> That unfortunately is not so. kill -9 does *not* send a signal or raise an
> exception. It just kills the process dead, instantly and without warning.

Does a plain kill send a signal or do you need to use an option
like SIGHUP?

[snip]
> 
> >> it might also slow the program down. You could also try writing the
> >> item log to a local file using pickle or csv.
> 
> Better is to use the logging module rather than to reinvent the wheel.
>

I was under the impression it was not logging in the traditional
sense of the word, but more like storable "status" so that reprocessing
can occur. I could be wrong though.

Ramit

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