[Python-Dev] Proposal - KeyboardInterrupt should inherit directly from Exception
Fred L. Drake, Jr.
fdrake@acm.org
Wed, 7 Nov 2001 09:41:08 -0500
On 07 November 2001, Skip Montanaro said:
> I have a simple proposal: Change the exception class hierarchy
> slightly, so that exceptions you generally will want to re-raise don't
> inherit from StandardError. Currently, SystemExit, StopIteration and
> Warning inherit directly from Exception. I suggest that
> KeyboardInterrupt should also inherit from Exception, and not
> StandardError.
Sounds reasonable to me.
Greg Ward writes:
> Hmmm... does anyone else habitually write
>
> if __name__ == "__main__":
> try:
> main()
> except KeyboardInterrupt:
> sys.exit("interrupted")
It must be you, Greg! ;-) The only thing I can think of that I do
similar to that is:
import errno
if __name__ == "__main__":
# do setup stuff...
...
# output result to file...
try:
write_result() # or whatever it really is...
except IOError, e:
if e.errno != errno.EPIPE:
raise
-Fred
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