[Baypiggies] Control-D to exit

[Aahz]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2006, Bibha Tripathi wrote:
> 
> Does CTRL-D not take me out of the Python interpreter anymore? Has
> something changed about Python in 2.4.3 on Win32?
> 
> Now I have to do ^z and then press enter to come out of the
> interpreter...I have Win32 extensions recently installed on my machine -
> just so someone looks for a correlation here :-)

ctrl-Z has always been the way to exit on Windows because that's the
historic end-of-file marker for Windows.  Python 2.5 fixes this schism:
quit() and exit() now work.
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