[New-bugs-announce] [issue1257] atexit errors should result in nonzero exit code

[Robert Brewer]

New submission from 
					Robert Brewer
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While debugging/fixing the logging module's atexit behavior (see
http://www.cherrypy.org/ticket/646 -- it chokes atexit if stdout is
closed), it became difficult to write an automated test that verified
the bug occurred, since it happened at program exit. Returning a nonzero
exit code when atexit errors occur would be preferable to just printing
the error. Of course, if SystemExit is already raised, we should
propagate that out, but other exceptions should print the traceback and
then return some other code IMO.

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 56323
nosy: aminusfu
severity: normal
status: open
title: atexit errors should result in nonzero exit code
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.4, Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 3.0

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