On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:38:36AM -1000, Tim Newsham wrote:
>
> Hi, When an exception happens within a gtk callback, it seems to
> get handled (by printing a stack trace) internally without propagating
> up to the top level and stopping the program. This behavior has
> been very useful for debugging, but now I want to be able to catch
> these exceptions and display the error message in a more appropriate
> manner (for example, the program is often run in windows in which
> there is no console window to display the exception information).
> Is there some way to hook into the error handling code?
Yes, there is -- you need to override "sys.excepthook" with
a function that does what you want. This is actually FAQ 20.10
(search for "excepthook" at www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/), but it's
reasonably straightforward to figure out from just reading the
Python "excepthook" docs.
-- A.
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Dr. Andrew C. E. Reid, Guest Researcher
Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Mail Stop 8500
Gaithersburg MD 20899 USA
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