On 6/9/06, Aahz <aahz@pythoncraft.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006, Paul Moore wrote:
On 6/9/06, Aahz <aahz@pythoncraft.com> wrote:
There was also discussion of a change to the way "quit" works in interactive mode. I see no record of it, so I guess that's not going
in,
either.
It's already in 2.5a2, if I'm thinking of the same thing you are...
Okay, I guess I mis-remembered what had been agreed to. Should this go into What's New? This also disagrees with Misc/NEWS:
- Patch #1446372: quit and exit can now be called from the interactive interpreter to exit.
Here are my tests:
: python Python 2.4 (#1, Jan 17 2005, 14:59:14) [GCC 3.3.3 (NetBSD nb3 20040520)] on netbsd2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
quit 'Use Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit.'
./python Python 2.5a2 (trunk:46583, May 31 2006, 20:56:06) [GCC 4.0.2 20050808 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.0.1-4ubuntu9)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
quit Use quit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit
Note the magic word, "called": centurion:~/python/python/trunk > python2.4 Python 2.4.4c0 (#2, Jun 8 2006, 01:12:27) [GCC 4.1.2 20060604 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-2)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
quit() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? TypeError: 'str' object is not callable
centurion:~/python/python/trunk > ./python Python 2.5a2 (trunk:46753, Jun 8 2006, 17:46:46) [GCC 4.1.2 20060604 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-2)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
quit() centurion:~/python/python/trunk >
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