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Asked: May 21, 20262026-05-21T11:44:41+00:00 2026-05-21T11:44:41+00:00

isinstance(SystemExit(1), Exception) evals to True, but this snippet prints caught by bare except SystemExit(1,)

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isinstance(SystemExit(1), Exception) evals to True, but this snippet prints "caught by bare except SystemExit(1,)".

try:
    sys.exit(0)
except Exception, e:
    print 'caught by except Exception', str(e)
except:
    print 'caught by bare except', repr(sys.exc_info()[1])

My testing environment is Python 2.6.

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    2026-05-21T11:44:42+00:00Added an answer on May 21, 2026 at 11:44 am

    isinstance(SystemExit(1), Exception)
    is False on Python 2.6. Exception hierarchy in this version of Python was changed since Python 2.4.

    E.g. KeyboardInterrupt is not subclass of Exception any more.

    See more info http://docs.python.org/release/2.6.6/library/exceptions.html#exception-hierarchy

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