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From: John Gordon <gordon@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: adding a simulation mode
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:56:56 +0000 (UTC)
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In <mailman.2039.1342099220.4697.python-list@python.org> andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> writes:

>     try:
>         copytree('sjkdf', 'dsflkj')
>         Popen(['notfouhd'], shell=True)
>     except Exception as e:
>         print("here")

> behaves differently from:

>     try:
>         Popen(['notfouhd'], shell=True)
>         copytree('sjkdf', 'dsflkj')
>     except Exception as e:
>         print("here")

> because if copytree fails it quits anyway.
> I also looked at the code but can't quite get why.. any idea?

copytree() could contain a call to sys.exit(), although that seems like
a rude thing to do.

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