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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:54:37 +0100
Subject: Re: adding a simulation mode
From: andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com>
To: "Steven D'Aprano" <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info>
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2012/7/13 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info>:

> Well of course it does. If copytree fails, the try block ends and
> execution skips straight to the except block, which runs, and then the
> program halts because there's nothing else to be done.
>
> That at least is my guess, based on the described symptoms.
>

Well I think that's what I was stupidly missing, I always had only one
possibly failing thing in a try/except block,
and I always gave for granted that it doesn't jump to the except block
on first error, but of course it makes
more sense if it does...

Thanks a lot