[Bf-committers] blender exit code after exec python

[Campbell Barton]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 3:15 AM, François T. <francoistarlier at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> I'm asking here because I'm not quite sure it is a bug or design matter.
>
> We are using blender on our renderfarm (Deadline) to generate some datas
> with a python script using the following command :
> blender --background --python script.py
>
> If the python script crash or raise an error, blender will exit with a zero
> code, so the renderfarm is not catching something has been wrong.
>
> In the mean time, we have to do a try/except in our scripts and add
> os._exit(0) or os._exit(-1) (_exit() because blender doesn't accept the
> exit()).

Committed a new argument `--python-exit-code`, so you can tell blender
to exit if theres an error in a script.

https://developer.blender.org/rB82a1adfbdf719178cb65c75d58e47c4742bc7a6e

Note that typically in Python you would call `sys.exit` (not `os._exit`).


> We are wondering if this is the correct approach or if blender shouldn't
> return the code itself if the script didn't run correctly ?
>
>
> cheers,
>
> F.
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