[Tutor] Exception not working as expected?

[Alan Gauld]

   I don't have python2 on my win10 PC and it works as expected on python 3.
   I suspect study of Eryk's post is your best bet. When it comes to the
   innards of Windows he is our local guru.
   On 1 Mar 2019 2:24 pm, Chip Wachob <wachobc at gmail.com> wrote:

     Alan,
     Thanks.** Once again, a case of not finding a tree in the forest...**
     One of these days I'll remember to KISS and try some SIMPLE
     experimentation...
     So I did your experiment with just the single line raw_input('>'), ran
     it, and used Ctrl-C to exit.** Traceback shown below.**
     C:\Temp_Python\Exception>python rawsimple.py
     >Traceback (most recent call last):
     ** File "rawsimple.py", line 1, in <module>
     ****** raw_input('>')

     C:\Temp_Python\Exception>
     Note that I ran the same code on a Linux machine and did get the name of
     the exception as you expected (KeyboardInterrupt).** And I was able to
     make a slightly longer script (again, as suggested) and got the desired
     results..
     Open to suggestions on how to capture the exception who's name isn't
     displayed...
     I'm still attempting to get my head around Eryk's post and perhaps that
     explains why there's no exception listed.
     On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 8:34 PM Alan Gauld via Tutor
     <[1]tutor at python.org> wrote:

       On 28/02/2019 21:03, Chip Wachob wrote:

       > it does work properly in Linux.** So I'm guessing I need to test for
       a
       > different exception along with the KeyboardInterrupt??

       Don't guess, test.

       Write a single line script

       raw_input('> ')

       Run it in a console.
       Hit Ctrl-C while it waits for input.
       See what the stack trace says is the exception
       Edit your script

       try:
       ** raw_input('> ')
       except <whatever e3xception you saw previously>:
       ** print "I got it that time!"

       run the new script.
       Did it work? Hooray! Transfer to the main script.
       If not come back here armed with tracebacks...

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