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
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