How to silence “sys.excepthook is missing” error?

Question

NB: I have not attempted to reproduce the problem described below under Windows, or with versions of Python other than 2.7.3.

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Answer 1

I ran into this sort of issue myself today and went looking for an answer. I think a simple workaround here is to ensure you flush stdio first, so python blocks instead of failing during script shutdown. For example:

--- a/testscript.py
+++ b/testscript.py
@@ -9,5 +9,6 @@ sys.excepthook = excepthook
 try:
     for n in range(20):
         print n
+    sys.stdout.flush()
 except:
     pass

Then with this script nothing happens, as the exception (IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe) is suppressed by the try...except.

$ python testscript.py  | :
$