cleanup in sys.excepthook?

[akonsu]

hello,

my script creates files that i need to delete if an exception is
thrown.

is this a good pythonic style to do this kind of cleanup in
sys.excepthook instead of inside except clause of a try block?

konstantin

 

[MRAB]

hello,

my script creates files that i need to delete if an exception is
thrown.

is this a good pythonic style to do this kind of cleanup in
sys.excepthook instead of inside except clause of a try block?

Speaking personally, I'd do the cleanup in the except clause if they
needed to be deleted only if there was an exception; I'd use a finally
clause or a 'with' context if they always had to be deleted, whether
there was an exception or not.

 

[Jean-Michel Pichavant]

hello,

my script creates files that i need to delete if an exception is
thrown.

is this a good pythonic style to do this kind of cleanup in
sys.excepthook instead of inside except clause of a try block?

konstantin

def doIt():
pass

try:
doIt()
except Exception, exc:
#cleaning up files



I mean, what is the problem with try except ? It's pythonic. If you tell
us what wrong with it in your case, we may spend time on hacking
sys.excepthook.

Jean-Michel

 

[akonsu]

def doIt():
    pass

try:
    doIt()
except Exception, exc:
    #cleaning up files

I mean, what is the problem with try except ? It's pythonic. If you tell
us what wrong with it in your case, we may spend time on hacking
sys.excepthook.

Jean-Michel

thanks. nothing is wrong with try/except. i just already have an
excepthook handler that uses logger to send emails if a critical error
occurs, so i was just thinking that maybe i can add cleanup there. i
agree, try/except makes more sense.

konstantin