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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The python module is currently catching NO exceptions. There are no try/except blocks. Right now I just have the module simply printing something and returning “OK” for everything…just as a proof of concept.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks though,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>--Brian<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> freeradius-users-bounces+bmccann=andmore.com@lists.freeradius.org [mailto:freeradius-users-bounces+bmccann=andmore.com@lists.freeradius.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Terry Simons<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 26, 2011 6:07 PM<br><b>To:</b> FreeRadius users mailing list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Python module/program<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Is the python module catching all exceptions?<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>You need to make sure you don't mask out the KeyboardInterrupt exception... otherwise, you may prevent Control-C from being passed up the stack.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I'm not sure if that's your issue, but it sounds like it could be. It's considered a Python best practice to explicitly catch the exact exceptions that you know how to handle, and let exceptions that you're not going to handle directly trickle up.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>That is to say that you should never do something like:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>try:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <some code><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>except:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <some code><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>because you *will* end up masking things like KeyboardInterrupt.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>You should always do something like:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>try:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <some code><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>except TheExceptionClass:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <some code><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>HTH,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>- Terry<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 2:47 PM, McCann, Brian <<a href="mailto:bmccann@andmore.com">bmccann@andmore.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all. I've got freeradius working using a python library for auth, but something interesting happened when I did. When I run "radius -X", and press CRTL+C, it no longer exits. It just returns "Ready to process requests.". The PID doesn't change, so it's not like its exiting and restarting.<br><br>I looked at <a href="http://wiki.freeradius.org/Rlm_perl" target="_blank">http://wiki.freeradius.org/Rlm_perl</a> (yes...I know...perl != python, but as the python page doesn't say much, I'm going on the perl page for a starting point) and it doesn't look like the script has to do anything to handle exits. Does anyone know what I'm missing?<br><br>Thanks,<br>--Brian<br><br>-<br>List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See <a href="http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html" target="_blank">http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>