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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:20:18 +0100
Subject: Re: adding a simulation mode
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Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:25215

One thing that I don't quite understand is why some calls even if I
catch the exception still makes the whole program quit.
For example this

    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?