[Python-Dev] quit() on the prompt
Josiah Carlson
jcarlson at uci.edu
Wed Mar 8 20:47:26 CET 2006
Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
Sounds like the quit/exit bits are becoming aliases for sys.exit with
special docstrings. That would be fine with me.
- Josiah
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