so what does 'one' underscore prefixing a methodname mean? "Gerhard Häring" <gerhard.haering at opus-gmbh.net> wrote in message news:slrnan9dhv.1vs.gerhard.haering at haering.opus-gmbh.net... > Roy Smith wrote: > > [...] Is there any way to get the interpreter to just exit without doing all > > that memory cleanup? > > os._exit > > -- Gerhard