[Python-Dev] Proposal - KeyboardInterrupt should inherit directly

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Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com (Skip Montanaro)
Thu, 8 Nov 2001 12:31:42 +0100 

Skip> Just as raising SystemExit doesn't generate a traceback, perhaps
Skip> the default handling of KeyboardInterrupt could be configurable so
Skip> I could set
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mal> Isn't this already possible using one of the display hooks in
mal> sys, e.g. sys.excepthook() ?!

Right you are. I wasn't even aware of its existence.

Skip