HOWTO: exit

[Skip Montanaro]

    adam> how do I exit from a script?

You can call sys.exit() or raise the SystemExit exception:

    beluga:skip% python
    Python 2.1.1c1 (#13, Jul 10 2001, 17:30:38) 
    [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Linux-Mandrake 8.0 2.96-0.48mdk)] on linux2
    Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> raise SystemExit
    beluga:skip% python
    Python 2.1.1c1 (#13, Jul 10 2001, 17:30:38) 
    [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Linux-Mandrake 8.0 2.96-0.48mdk)] on linux2
    Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> import sys
    >>> sys.exit()
    beluga:skip% 


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