Qutting the interpreter

[Bjorn Pettersen]

Mikael Olofsson wrote:
> 
> On 31-Mar-00 Michael Ackerman wrote:
>  >     I am trying to find a way of quitting the interpreter. On p.3 of the
>  >  tutorial it says this can be done by 'import sys; sys.exit()', but this
>  >  produces an error message when I try it. I used to be able to quit by
>  >  'raise SystemExit', but that no longer works either. So how is this done?
>  >     I am using version 1.5.2c.1 of Python on a Mac.
> 
> Try ^D
> 
> That works at least on Unix. If you write quit at the prompt you should
> get this information.

That's just what happens to be the end-of-file character on *nix. Eg. on
windows it's ^Z.  I have no idea what it would be on a Mac however...

-b