[Python-Dev] a quit that actually quits

[Fernando Perez]

Steve Holden wrote:

> Except that if you have iPython installed on Windows you *don't* enter
> the platform EOF any more, you enter CTRL/D (which threw me for a
> while).

To be fair, that's due to the win32 readline library used by ipython, which
modifies console handling.  IPython itself doesn't do anything to the EOF
conventions, it's pure python code with no direct access to the console.

Cheers,

f