Don't use try/except/finally as its a python2.5 feature One of the hosts I'm using still has 2.4 on it.  (And given that I'd just caught Exception, there shouldn't  be many exceptions left that would skip the shutdown code)
Don't use try/except/finally as its a python2.5 feature
One of the hosts I'm using still has 2.4 on it. 
(And given that I'd just caught Exception, there shouldn't 
be many exceptions left that would skip the shutdown code)

detrout/benderjab