Re: multiprocessing: excepthook not getting called

2012-06-13 Thread Philipp Hagemeister
On 06/13/2012 11:00 AM, Dave Cook wrote: > Originally, I was trying to send formatted > tracebacks back to the main process on a queue. You can still do that: import multiprocessing import sys def queueErrors(q): def decorator(func): def wrapped(*args, **kwargs): try:

Re: multiprocessing: excepthook not getting called

2012-06-13 Thread Philipp Hagemeister
multiprocessing just mimicks the threading module here, see http://bugs.python.org/issue1230540 . Why do you need excepthook in the first place? You can perfectly simulate it by wrapping the root method (target in your example) in a try .. catch: import multiprocessing import sys def printErrors

multiprocessing: excepthook not getting called

2012-06-12 Thread Dave Cook
Why doesn't my excepthook get called in the child process? import sys import multiprocessing as mp def target(): name = mp.current_process().name def exceptHook(*args): print 'exceptHook:', name, args sys.excepthook = exceptHook raise ValueError if __name__=='__main__':