launchpad-dev team mailing list archive

[Graham Binns <graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2009/11/26 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?
>

Jeroen's got a fix for it. I'm going to review it in the morning
unless you want to do it first ;)


https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~jtv/launchpad/bug-488695/+merge/15279

-- 
Graham Binns | PGP Key: EC66FA7D