> > py> isinstance(KeyboardInterrupt(), Exception) > False > py> isinstance(ValueError, Exception) > False >
I might have missed something, but don't you want to be using BaseException as your class/type? Also, Checking isinstance() between two classes isn't likely to work, I don't think. Both the 2.7 and 3.6 docs indicate that BaseException is the base class for all built-in exceptions: https://docs.python.org/2/library/exceptions.html https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html Of course, YMMV when dealing with user-defined exception classes. Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list