[Python-Dev] quit() on the prompt
Ian Bicking
ianb at colorstudy.com
Wed Mar 8 19:11:31 CET 2006
Neil Schemenauer wrote:
>>Bad idea, as several pointed out -- quit() should return a 0 exit
>>to the shell.
>
>
> I like the idea of making "quit" callable. One small concern I have
> is that people will use it in scripts to exit (rather than one of
> the other existing ways to exit). OTOH, maybe that's a feature.
I actually thought it was only defined for interactive sessions, but a
brief test shows I was wrong. It doesn't bother me, but it does make me
think that exit(1) should exit with a code of one.
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