[Python-Dev] a quit that actually quits

[Michael Hudson]

"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> writes:

> Michael Hudson wrote:
>
>> In other news, clever hacks with tb_next and so on also seem
>> excessive.  Why not have the equivalent of "if input.rstrip() ==
>> 'exit': sys.exit()" in the implementation of the interactive
>> interpreter?
>
> that would turn exit and quit into reserved keywords.

In what sense?  Not in the sense of "things in single quotes in
Grammar"...

Cheers,
mwh

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