[New-bugs-announce] [issue25489] sys.exit() caught in exception handler

[Brian Sutherland]

New submission from Brian Sutherland:

Running the attached file with python3 shows that SystemExit is caught rather than causing the process to stop. That's quite surprising.

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components: asyncio
files: test_sys_exit_in_exception_handler.py
messages: 253529
nosy: gvanrossum, haypo, jinty, yselivanov
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: sys.exit() caught in exception handler
versions: Python 3.5
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file40867/test_sys_exit_in_exception_handler.py

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