global exception catching

[Rene Pijlman]

Hilbert:
>Is there a way to catch a "global" exception in a python
>program (meaning that if there would be an error
>during execution it could call a function before exiting)?

How is that different from regular exception handling?

>I have a program that creates large temp files and in case
>of any unforseen problems I still need to clean up before
>exiting.

Use finally. See "8.6 Defining Clean-up Actions" on
http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/node10.html#SECTION0010300000000000000000

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