Bryan wrote: > Why does os._exit called from a Python Timer kill the whole process while > sys.exit does not? On Suse.
os._exit calls the C function _exit() which does an immediate program termination. See for example http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man2/_exit.2.html and note the statement "can never return". sys.exit() is identical to "raise SystemExit()". It raises a Python exception which may be caught at a higher level in the program stack. Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
