Embedded Python and sys.exit()

[Mitchell Morris]

angelow at tttech.com (Harald Angelow) wrote in
<954342057.403349 at newsmaster-04.atnet.at>: 

>I have embedded Python in a  Win MFC program and execute script files
>and simple strings.
>(Py_RunFile, PyRun_String)
>
>If the python script raises SystemExit or calls sys.exit() the whole
>process is shut down.
>How can I manage that only the Python Interpreter stops and returns from
>the function call of
>Py_RunFile or PyRun_String? Does Python know, that it is embedded?
>
>thanks Harald

The short answer is you have to avoid running PyErr_Print().

The long answer is you'll probably wind up cutting-n-pasting large chunks 
of the source to PyErr_PrintEx() into your code to avoid the exit() call 
contained therein.

Somewhere around here I've got a paper I wrote about doing exactly this 
with Python, Perl and Tcl. I'll try to dig it up and post it in before this 
weekend.

dang-that-interpreter-ly y'rs
+Mitchell