[Python-ideas] Issue with sys.exit and a long

[Guido van Rossum]

The bug tracker would be a good place for this. :-)

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Observe:
>
> ryan at DevPC-LX:~/bfort$ python -c 'import sys; sys.exit(1)'
> ryan at DevPC-LX:~/bfort$ python -c 'import sys; sys.exit(1L)'
> 1
> ryan at DevPC-LX:~/bfort$
>
> If I call sys.exit with a long value under Python 2, it prints it. I count
> this as a bug because:
>
> 1. int and long are supposed to be as similar as possible.
> 2. When you're using Hy (which implicitly makes all ints longs), this
> sucks.
>
> --
> Ryan
> [ERROR]: Your autotools build scripts are 200 lines longer than your
> program. Something’s wrong.
> http://kirbyfan64.github.io/
>
>
>
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