[Python-Dev] a quit that actually quits

[Neil Schemenauer]

Scott David Daniels <Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org> wrote:
> Or, perhaps:
>      class _Quitter(str):
>          def __call__(self): raise SystemExit
>      quit = _Quitter('The quit command.  Type "quit()" to exit')
>      exit = _Quitter('The exit command.  Type "exit()" to exit')

FWIW, I like this kind of solution best.  Something magical would be
a mistake.  I don't like the status quo because there is no
cross-plaform way to indicate EOF (or more pedantically "push
current line").  Maybe we can make everyone happy by making the
'quit' and 'exit' objects callable and changing the message to
something like:

    Use quit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit.

Cheers,

  Neil