In <mailman.2039.1342099220.4697.python-l...@python.org> andrea crotti <andrea.crott...@gmail.com> writes:
> try: > copytree('sjkdf', 'dsflkj') > Popen(['notfouhd'], shell=True) > except Exception as e: > print("here") > behaves differently from: > try: > Popen(['notfouhd'], shell=True) > copytree('sjkdf', 'dsflkj') > except Exception as e: > print("here") > because if copytree fails it quits anyway. > I also looked at the code but can't quite get why.. any idea? copytree() could contain a call to sys.exit(), although that seems like a rude thing to do. -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears -- Edward Gorey, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list