Other difference with Perl: Python scripts in a pipe

Thu Mar 10 19:08:55 EST 2016

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 8:48 AM, Fillmore <fillmore_remove at hotmail.com>
wrote:
> On 3/10/2016 5:16 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
>>>>> Interesting, both of these are probably worth bringing up as issues on
>> the bugs.python.org tracker. I'm not sure that the behavior should be
>> changed (if we get an error, we shouldn't just swallow it) but it does
>> seem like a significant hassle for writing command-line
>> text-processing tools.
>>>> is it possible that I am the first one encountering this kind of issues?
>>No. I see it usually.
Python's zen says:
> Errors should never pass silently.
> Unless explicitly silenced.

When failed to write to stdout, Python should raise Exception.
You can silence explicitly when it's safe:
try:
 print(...)
except BrokenPipeError:
 os.exit(0)