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Re: except block isn't catching exception

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Date 2015-08-08 12:44 +1000
Subject Re: except block isn't catching exception
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.1325.1439001880.3674.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 3:16 AM,  <sohcahtoa82@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Though I still doesn't understand why the exception isn't caught when I'm explicitly trying to catch it.  I even tried changing the try/except block to this:
>
> try:
>     connection, _ = sock.accept()
> except KeyboardInterrupt:
>     print 'KeyboardInterrupt caught!'
> except socket.timeout:
>     print 'Socket timeout caught!'
> except:
>     print 'other exception caught!'
> finally:
>     print 'finally!'
>
> The result prints:
>
> Interrupting main
> main interrupted!
> finally!

The exception isn't happening inside sock.accept(), as I explained. So
you can't catch it there.

ChrisA

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except block isn't catching exception sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2015-08-06 17:34 -0700
  Re: except block isn't catching exception Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-08-07 10:46 +1000
    Re: except block isn't catching exception sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2015-08-07 10:16 -0700
      Re: except block isn't catching exception Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-08-08 12:44 +1000
      Re: except block isn't catching exception Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-08-08 00:56 -0600
      Re: except block isn't catching exception Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-08-08 17:08 +1000

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