On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Marc Tompkins <marc.tompk...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Tino Dai <obe...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> Is there anyway to execute a block of code at the end of a program >> in 2.6 regardless of what happened before eg exiting normally or died >> because of an exception? >> I was thinking about maybe a free standing finally code block or a >> decorator. >> > > How about calling the entire program in a module and putting the call to > it inside a try/except block? Then you can have your cleanup code in a > finally block at the end of all that. > > Exceptions are meant to be caught. I think what you're asking is "is > there any way to make Python ignore any bad stuff and keep running my > program?" The answer is yes: catch your exceptions. > Actually, what I'm doing is keeping a pending item log in memory as an array and then saving it to the DB at the end of the program, but what happens if the user hits ctrl-c, then the pending items array is lost. That's the use case that I'm looking for a solution to. -Tino
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