On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:57:37 -0500 Ross Ridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > D'Arcy J.M. Cain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Under Python 2.4 this works fine. If an exception is raised in the > >looked up method it gets handled by this code just fine. Under 2.5, > >however, the exception is not caught here. It's as if there was no > >try/except here at all. > > Python 2.5 changed the exception hierarchy a bit. The Exception class > is no longer at the root and now inheirits from BaseException. If the > exception being thrown was KeyboardInterrupt or SystemExit then it won't > be caught by your code.
Yes, I was aware of that but the error not being caught is RuntimeError. I also tried a bare "except" just to be sure but same behaviour. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
