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[Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Hudson wrote:

> I changed how shutting down works in
>
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/devel/revision/9939
>
> but the code looks correct to me :/  I guess I'll --postmortem something
> today and see what the value of 'really_shutdown' is...

Looks like a misunderstanding with the interpreter.  As an experiment, I 
tried:

def foo(x):
  try:
    return x
  except Exception, e:
    print e
  else:
    print "Or else."

foo(10)


In python 2.4, 2.5, or 2.6 this just prints 10.  The "else" block 
attached to the "try" is never executed.


Jeroen