On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Mel Wilson <mwil...@the-wire.com> wrote:
> The usual way to do what you're asking is
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
> main()
> goodbye()
>
> and write main so that it returns after it's done all the things it's
> supposed to do. If you've sprinkled `sys.exit()` all over your code, then
> don't do that. If you're forced to deal with a library that hides
> `sys.exit()` calls in the functions, then you have my sympathy. Library
> authors should not do that, and there have been threads on c.l.p explaining
> why they shouldn't.
In such a case. one can do::
if __name__ == '__main__':
try:
main()
except SystemExit:
pass
goodbye()
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