On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Michael Foord <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk> wrote: > [snip...] > Why not just catch SystemExit? If you want a custom exception the overriding > .exit() should be sufficient. > I'd be much more interested in Guido's suggestion of auto-generated custom > help messages for sub-commands.
Check it out: def ParseAndRun(): crazy_external_function_that_might_exit() # Argparse blah blah parser.parse_args() if __name__ == "__main__": try: ParseAndRun() except SystemExit: # was it crazy_external_function_that_might_exit or an argparse error? I know this might come through as bike shedding but it's just customary python that every module have it's own exception types as to not mix them up with others. --yuv _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com