python script gets killed by test for stdout - python-3.x

I'm writing a CGI script that is supposed to send data to a user until they disconnect, then run logging tasks afterwards.
THE PROBLEM: Instead of break executing and the logging getting completed when the client disconnects (detected by inability to write to the stdout buffer), the script ends or is killed (I cannot find any logs anywhere for how this exit is occurring)
Here is a snippet of the code:
for block in r.iter_content(262144):
if stopRecord == True:
r.close()
if not block:
break
if not sys.stdout.buffer.write(block): #The code fails here after a client disconnects
break
cacheTemp.close()
####write data to other logs and exit gracefully####
I have tried using "except:" as well as "except SystemExit:" but to no avail. Has anyone been able to solve this problem? (It is for a CGI script which is supposed to log when the client terminates their connection)
UPDATE: I have now tried using signal to interrupt the kill process in the script, which also didn't work. Where can I see an error log? I know exactly which line fails and under which conditions, but there is no error log or anything like I would get if I ran a script which failed in a terminal.

When you say it kills the program, you mean the main python process exits - and not by some thrown exception? That's kinda weird. A workaround might be to have the task run in a separate Thread or process, and then monitor that until it dies and subsequently execute the second task.

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I have a script that fetches data from the internet.
It uses commander, axios, https-proxy-agent, pg and a bunch of other modules, probably unrelated to the issue.
The logic is not complicated: get a list of URLs from the DB, loop downloading data using a proxy and saving it back to the DB, exit.
It works fine, except sometimes the script exits in the middle of the job.
No errors, just sudden termination. I haven't found a way to replicate it reliably.
When launched through an IDEA debugger, the final message reads:
^C
Process finished with exit code 130 (interrupted by signal 2: SIGINT)
I haven't pressed Ctrl+C, just in case.
strace final lines are:
--- SIGINT {si_signo=SIGINT, si_code=SI_KERNEL} ---
+++ killed by SIGINT +++
There's a SIGINT handler attached to process. It runs if I interrupt the script manually, but not when it happens by itself.
Attached are 2 excerpts from strace output: one when things are working as expected and the other is the final output before the script is terminated.
success.txt
failure.txt
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19 is a socket descriptor.
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After some research, I came to know that all these kill commands are just killing the process whereas in this case, we need to stop the process.
This thing I have achieved by
sudo kill -SIGINT <pid>
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This worked for me.

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I'm working on a server bot in python3 (using asyncio), and I would like to incorporate an update function for collaborators to instantly test their contributions. It is hosted on a VPS that I access via ssh. I run the process in tmux and it is often difficult for other contributors to relaunch the script once they have made a commit, etc. I'm very new to python, and I just use what I can find. So far I have used subprocess.Popen to run git pull, but I have no way for it to automatically restart the script.
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This is (as far as I know) the simplest approach to solve your problem.
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loop.call_soon_threadsafe(loop.stop)
sys.exit(0)
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after some timeout:
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