[Python-Dev] a quit that actually quits

[Reinhold Birkenfeld]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> sourceforge just went off the air, so I'm posting this patch here, in order
> to distract you all from Christian's deque thread.
> 
> this silly little patch changes the behaviour of the interpreter so that "quit"
> and "exit" actually exits the interpreter.  it does this by installing a custom
> excepthook that looks for NameErrors at the top level, in interactive mode
> only.

What is wrong with something like this:

 >>> class Quitter:
...  def __repr__(self): raise SystemExit
...
 >>> exit = quit = Quitter()

It could optionally check for top level too, of course.

Reinhold

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