contextlib.contextmanager and try/finally

[Tim Delaney]

On 1 February 2012 09:02, Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> wrote:

> Prasad, Ramit wrote:
> > Is that true even in the face of something like sys.exit()?
> > What happens if 1) sys.exit is called while in the same thread
> > 2) sys.exit is called from another thread but while this thread
> > is in context manager?
>
> sys.exit() uses the normal exception mechanism to terminate a program:
>
> >>> import sys
> >>> try:
> ...     sys.exit()
> ... except SystemExit:
> ...     print "I'd rather not"
> ...
> I'd rather not
> >>>
>
> It won't derail a context manager:
>
> >>> from contextlib import contextmanager
> >>> @contextmanager
> ... def f():
> ...     try:
> ...             yield
> ...     finally: print "bye"
> ...
> >>> import sys
> >>> with f():
> ...     sys.exit()
> ...
> bye
> $


Note OTOH that os._exit() just terminates the process with no cleanup (this
may be what you were thinking of):

>>> from contextlib import contextmanager
>>> @contextmanager
... def f():
...     try:
...             yield
...     finally: print "bye"
...
>>> import os
>>> with f():
...     os._exit(1)
...
$

Tim Delaney
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