This goes against the idea of keeping the language small. Believe me,
it's been discussed to death, and the behavior you see now is the
solid outcome of that discussion.
On Feb 20, 2008 7:22 AM, BJörn Lindqvist
An idea I have thought about for a while and it makes sense to me...
$ python Python 2.4.2 (#1, Oct 13 2006, 17:17:08) [GCC 4.1.0 (SUSE Linux)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
exit 'Use Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit.'
Argh! Do what I mean, stupid Python! And it is Ctrl+Z on Windows, not Ctrl-D. So exit could be a statement that does the same thing that sys.exit() does currently. Bare "exit" to terminate with return code 0, and "exit X" to terminate with return code X.
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