Thanks, Eryk - this is very helpful. Stephen.
On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 6:43 AM Eryk Sun <eryk...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4/3/20, Stephen Tucker <stephen_tuc...@sil.org> wrote: > > > > Does an exception raised by a Python 3.x program on a Windows machine set > > ERRORLEVEL? > > ERRORLEVEL is an internal state of the CMD shell. It has nothing to do > with Python. If Python exits due to an unhandled exception, the > process exit code will be 1. If CMD waits on the process, it will set > the ERRORLEVEL based on the exit code. But CMD doesn't always wait. By > default its START command doesn't wait. Also, at the interactive > command prompt it doesn't wait for non-console applications such as > "pythonw.exe"; it only waits for console applications such as > "python.exe". > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
