Gracefully exiting CLI application

[Ben Finney]

David <71david at libero.it> writes:

> I am writing a command line application, and I need to perform some
> cleaning on exit even if the process is killed. How can I do that with
> python?

Write an “exit handler” function, then use ‘atexit.register’
<URL:http://docs.python.org/library/atexit> to register yours for
processing whenever the program exits.

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