On Aug 28, 6:52 pm, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > On 29/08/2011 02:15, Russ P. wrote:> I have a Python (2.6.x) script on Linux > that loops through many > > directories and does processing for each. That processing includes > > several "os.system" calls for each directory (some to other Python > > scripts, others to bash scripts). > > > Occasionally something goes wrong, and the top-level script just keeps > > running with a stack dump for each case. When I see that, I want to > > just kill the whole thing and fix the bug. However, when I hit Control- > > C, it apparently just just kills whichever script happens to be > > running at that instant, and the top level script just moves to the > > next line and keeps running. If I hit Control-C repeatedly, I > > eventually get "lucky" and kill the top-level script. Is there a > > simple way to ensure that the first Control-C will kill the whole darn > > thing, i.e, the top-level script? Thanks. > > You could look at the return value of os.system, which may tell you the > exit status of the process.
Thanks for the suggestion. Yeah, I guess I could do that, but it seems that there should be a simpler way to just kill the "whole enchilada." Hitting Control-C over and over is a bit like whacking moles. --Russ P. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
