[Baypiggies] How to tell if sys.excepthook has already been overridden?

[Keith Dart]

Paul McNett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a general way to tell if sys.excepthook has been overridden 
> already or not? I want to override it in my library, but only if it 
> hasn't already been overridden by some other library or 
> end-application code.

The original (built-in) exception hook is available as 
"sys.__excepthook__. So you can test:

if sys.excepthook is sys.__excepthook__:
    print "original hook"
else:
   print "except hook overridden"