[Python-Dev] a quit that actually quits

[Fredrik Lundh]

Walter Dörwald wrote:

> We have sys.displayhook and sys.excepthook. Why not add a sys.inputhook?
> sys.inputhook gets passed each line entered and may return True if it has
> processed the line inself and False if normal handling of the input should be
> done. This allows special treatment of "quit", "exit", "help" /.../

so how would such a hook deal with the

    >>> def exit():
    ...     pass
    >>> exit

case ?

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