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And another great song

Hrm. I find it hard to believe that I haven't pointed y'all towards one of the best outlaw love songs ever: 1952 Vincent Black Lightning by Richard Thompson, here showing his guitar-god fingerpicking skills as well as breaking our hearts, from a festival in 2005-08-12.

Some live bits

It's been a while since I posted any live music here, but I've been stacking some up. Three items came to the top of the list:
Transit, a very sweet song by Richard Shindell about both the cost of haste and possibility of redemption
Time (The Revelator), reimagined pretty wildly by Mike Gordon and his band
Scarlet Begonias, done for Jerry by Bruce Hornsby 15 years ago

Exiting gracefully when seeing a Control-C in Python

It took a bit of searching and mixing of answers for me to get this. In fact, I came across some really bad ideas for exception handling in the search. I think this is approximately the safest way to catch the user pressing Control-C but not messing with any of the other exceptions. Of course, you might mix in some other things before exiting (like closing open files and sockets), but basically:

import sys
OriginalExceptHook = sys.excepthook
def NewExceptHook(type, value, traceback):
	if type == KeyboardInterrupt:
		exit("\nExiting.")
	else:
		OriginalExceptHook(type, value, traceback)
sys.excepthook = NewExceptHook