exception not caught in my filetopystr.py

[Skaperen]

i added that ... but IOError still fails to be caught and triggers the incomplete traceback.  could it be that i cannot do this through a function call?  it's like my except statements have no effect.

Output:
lt1/forums /home/forums 89> tail -24 filetopystr.py
if __name__ == '__main__':
    try:
        result = main( argv )
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        result = 140
        print( '' )
    except IOError:
        print( 'it worked this time', file=stderr )
        result = 141
    except:
        print( 'wtf:', exc_info()[0], file=stderr )
        result = 141
    stdout.flush()
    try:
        exit( int( result ) )
    except ValueError:
        print( str( result ), file=stderr )
        exit( 1 )
    except TypeError:
        if result == None:
            exit( 0 )
        exit( 255 )

# EOF
lt1/forums /home/forums 90> python filetopystr.py 0 'http://www.google.com/' ip 80|head -80|tail -3
connecting to 'http://www.google.com/'
connected  to 'http://www.google.com/'
reading  from 'http://www.google.com/'
read 10871 bytes
'google.com/mail/?tab=wm">Gmail</a> <a class=gb1 href="https://drive.google.co'\
'm/?tab=wo">Drive</a> <a class=gb1 style="text-decoration:none" href="https://'\
'www.google.com/intl/en/options/"><u>More</u> &raquo;</a></nobr></div><div id='\
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "filetopystr.py", line 162, in <module>
    stdout.flush()
IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
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