Handle SystemExit exception

[asit]

My program contains some sys.exit(1) and when its executed an
exception known as SystemExit is thrown.

I tried to handle bu using following code snippet

if __name__ == "__main__":
try:
main() #main contains sys.exit(1)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
print "aborted by user"
except SystemExit:
pass

But it does not work.

Can anyone help me out ???

Though KeyboradInterrupt is handled, but why SystemExit is not
handles ????

Regards
Asit Dhal

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Sun, 01 Feb 2009 07:27:26 -0200, asit <lip...@gmail.com> escribió:

> My program contains some sys.exit(1) and when its executed an
> exception known as SystemExit is thrown.

This is normal behaviour - but you should not "see" the SystemExit. Do you
mean that a stack trace appears in the console?

> I tried to handle bu using following code snippet
>
> if __name__ == "__main__":
> try:
> main() #main contains sys.exit(1)
> except KeyboardInterrupt:
> print "aborted by user"
> except SystemExit:
> pass
>
> But it does not work.

I've tested adding this:

def main():
sys.exit(1)

and it exited normally, even after removing the SystemExit clause.

> Can anyone help me out ???
>
> Though KeyboradInterrupt is handled, but why SystemExit is not
> handles ????

Perhaps there is another try/except somewhere else that handles SystemExit?
Look for bare except clauses, like

try:
except: ...

They should *not* be used. With Python 2.5 and above, theh "catch-all"
should be written as:

try:
except Exception: ...

If you are using 2.4 or earlier, should be:

try:
except (SystemExit, KeyboardInterrupt): raise
except: ...

--
Gabriel Genellina

[Steven D'Aprano]

asit wrote:

> My program contains some sys.exit(1) and when its executed an
> exception known as SystemExit is thrown.
>
> I tried to handle bu using following code snippet
>
> if __name__ == "__main__":
> try:
> main() #main contains sys.exit(1)
> except KeyboardInterrupt:
> print "aborted by user"
> except SystemExit:
> pass
>
> But it does not work.

It works for me:

>>> try:
... sys.exit()
... except SystemExit:
... pass
...
>>>

What does it do for you? Crash? Exit? print garbage to the screen?

I'm going to guess what you are doing. Do you have code like this?

try:
main() #main contains sys.exit(1)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
print "aborted by user"

except SomeOtherException, SystemExit:
pass

This will mask SystemExit and stop it from being caught. It should be
written like this:

except (SomeOtherException, SystemExit):
pass

Or possibly something like this?

try:
main() #main contains sys.exit(1)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
print "aborted by user"

except Exception:
do_something()
raise
except SystemExit:
pass

The Exception clause will catch SystemExit before the SystemExit clause will
see it. That should be written like this:

except SystemExit:
pass
except Exception:
do_something()
raise

--
Steven

[asit]

Thanx everyone

This is my fault. Exception was thrown before the main function.