You're not missing anything; I wasn't clear. I wasn't sure if raise or sys.exit(1) were the preferred ways, or if there was some other way I didn't know about. I've never had to force a script to halt before, at least not one I mean to schedule to run on its own once a day, so wanted to check that those are indeed the recommended ways.
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Alan Gauld via Tutor <tutor@python.org> wrote: > On 25/05/16 19:11, Alex Hall wrote: > > > As a quick aside, is there an easy way to halt script execution for some > > exceptions? Right now, catching them means that execution continues, but > I > > sometimes want to log the problem and then abort the script, as the error > > means it shouldn't continue. Thanks. > > I'm not sure what the issue is here. > Can't you just exit in the normal fashion using > > sys.exit() > or > raise SystemExit? > > I feel I must be missing something? > > -- > Alan G > Author of the Learn to Program web site > http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ > http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld > Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > -- Alex Hall Automatic Distributors, IT department ah...@autodist.com _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
