traceback.print _exc() supposed to stop exception propagation.

[Sami]

Hello,

In the Python book that I am using to learn the language it says that
the traceback.print _exc() can be used to stop exception propagation and
make the program keep running.

Here is a simple piece of code that I typed in to test this fact:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
import sys

def Myexcepthook(et ype, value, tb):
print "in Myexcepthook\n"
import traceback
lines=traceback .format_excepti on(etype, value, tb)
print "\n".join(lines )
traceback.print _exc()
sys.excepthook = Myexcepthook

x = 1/0

x = 78

print x
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Output:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
in Myexcepthook

Traceback (most recent call last):

File
"E:\Home\Progra mming\Python\Tr yProjects\Excep tHandling1\Exce pt2.py", lin
15, in <module>
x = 1/0

ZeroDivisionErr or: integer division or modulo by zero

None
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

I never see the value 78.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Sami

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Sami schrieb:

Hello,

In the Python book that I am using to learn the language it says that
the traceback.print _exc() can be used to stop exception propagation and
make the program keep running.

Here is a simple piece of code that I typed in to test this fact:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
import sys

def Myexcepthook(et ype, value, tb):
print "in Myexcepthook\n"
import traceback
lines=traceback .format_excepti on(etype, value, tb)
print "\n".join(lines )
traceback.print _exc()
sys.excepthook = Myexcepthook

x = 1/0

x = 78

print x
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Output:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
in Myexcepthook

Traceback (most recent call last):

File
"E:\Home\Progra mming\Python\Tr yProjects\Excep tHandling1\Exce pt2.py", lin
15, in <module>
x = 1/0

ZeroDivisionErr or: integer division or modulo by zero

None
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

I never see the value 78.

What am I doing wrong?

Trusting a wrong source. Or misinterpreting it.

Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May 2 2007, 16:56:35)
[GCC 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright" , "credits" or "license" for more information.
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>>import traceback
help(tracebac k.print_exc)

Help on function print_exc in module traceback:

print_exc(limit =None, file=None)
Shorthand for 'print_exceptio n(sys.exc_type, sys.exc_value,
sys.exc_traceba ck, limit, file)'.
(In fact, it uses sys.exc_info() to retrieve the same information
in a thread-safe way.)

>>>

Nothing in there says that this would prevent the exception from being
propagated.

Diez

[Terry Reedy]

"Sami" <sa********@NOS PAMbtinternet.c omwrote in message
news:69******** *************** *******@bt.com. ..
| Hello,
|
| In the Python book that I am using to learn the language it says that
| the traceback.print _exc() can be used to stop exception propagation and
| make the program keep running.

It is possible that the unspecified book describes an unspecified Python
version that is not the same as the unspecified version that you tested
with ;-).

Help respondants by providing version info. Sometimes even the system/OS
info is helpful, though probably not relevant here.

tjr