bvdp wrote:
The whole problem I was having is that I was trying to tie a small application (an helper to the main application) to use a bit of the existing code as a pseudo-library.
This is precisely the reason that it's a bad idea to directly terminate the program from somewhere deep inside the code. It makes it hard to re-use the code in another context. It's much better to raise an exception containing an appropriate error message, catch it at the top level of the application and print the message and exit there. Then you can easily re-use any of the code in a context where it's not appropriate to have it exit out from under you. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
