Cecilia Alm wrote:
> I have two quick questions:
>
> 1) Why does sys.exit() not work in a try clause (but it does in the
> except clause)?
sys.exit raises an exception. That's how it exits program execution.
If you use it in a try block, the exception it raises will have no
effect because your except clause isn't catching
a particular kind of error, it's catching all errors (including
"SystemExit" ones)
an example of a sys.exit working in a try block would be something like
this:
import sys
try:
f = file('somefile_you_have.txt','r')
sys.exit(0)
except IOError:
print "You had an error on file input"
hope that clears some things up for you.
-Luke
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