title: Does raising a manual exception in a python program terminate it?
body: <p>Does invoking a raise statement in python cause the program to exit with traceback or continue the program from next statement? I want to raise an exception but continue with the remainder program. 
  Well I need this because I am running the program in a thirdparty system and I want the exception to be thrown yet continue with the program. The concerned code is a threaded  function which has to return .
  Cant I spawn a new thread just for throwing exception and letting the program continue?</p>