launchpad-dev team mailing list archive

[Michael Hudson <michael.hudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeroen Vermeulen wrote:
> 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.

Aarargh.  I knew this would be a bad week to stop drinking coffee :-)

Having found the problem, it would have been easy to fix though?

Cheers,
mwh