[IronPython] Prevention of SystemExit Dialog While Debugging

[Michael Foord]

  On 31/08/2010 00:13, Jones, Larry wrote:
>
> I'm writing unit tests in IronPython.
>
> The implementation of unittest.main() calls sys.exit() when finished 
> even if no testing errors occurred. Consequently, the Visual Studio 
> debugger presents a dialog indicating that the SystemExit exception 
> was unhandled.  Running from the console, I do not see any evidence of 
> the SystemExit exception. Because my colleagues are not familiar with 
> IronPython, seeing this error in the debugger will cause them to think 
> that some problem occurred on exit.
>
Is your code calling unittest.main() or is Visual Studio calling it for you?

In the version of unittest that comes with Python 2.7 you can call 
unittest.main(exit=False). Alternatively you can just catch and ignore 
this exception yourself.

All the best,

Michael

> Although I suspect I can configure Visual Studio to ignore this 
> exception, I'd prefer not to because it may indicate an actual problem.
>
> How can I determine if an IronPython script is running under the VS 
> debugger?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Have a great day!
>
>
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