Python global exception handling

Question

I want to catch KeyboardInterrupt globally, and deal with it nicely. I don't want to encase my entire script in a huge try/except statement. Is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

You could change sys.excepthook if you really don't want to use a try/except.

import sys
def my_except_hook(exctype, value, traceback):
    if exctype == KeyboardInterrupt:
        print "Handler code goes here"
    else:
        sys.__excepthook__(exctype, value, traceback)
sys.excepthook = my_except_hook