How to exit early?

[François Pinard]

[brobbins333 at shaw.ca]

> I want to [...] exit without running the remainder of the script.
> What's the best way to do this?

Suppose you want to exit with status code 13.  You may use either:

    raise SystemExit, 13

or maybe:

    import sys
    sys.exit(13)

If you want status 0, representing no error, you may prefer to write
either of:

    raise SystemExit

    import sys
    sys.exit()

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard