[Python-Dev] a quit that actually quits

[Reinhold Birkenfeld]

skip at pobox.com wrote:
>     Fredrik> a quit/exit command that actually quits, instead of printing a
>     Fredrik> "you didn't say please!" message.
> 
> I like Fredrik's idea more and more.  Without my Unix bifocals it wouldn't
> occur to me that Ctrl-D is the way to exit.  Knowing Ctrl-Z is EOF on
> Windows, it wouldn't occur to me that I'd also have to hit Return.  Without
> my Python shades I'd never guess to exit via "raise SystemExit".  While the
> raise command is "one true way", it certainly won't occur to newbies.  I
> have no idea how I'd exit from Pippy or from the interpreter prompt on a
> Nokia phone without it.
> 
> In short, I think it makes a lot of sense to support a bare "exit" and/or
> "quit" as a completely intuitive platform-independent newbie-friendly way to
> exit the interpreter.

+1.

Reinhold

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