aborting without killing the python interpreter
Erik Max Francis
max at alcyone.com
Sun Feb 19 01:43:28 EST 2006
Terry Reedy wrote:
> How? In the standard interpreter, 'exit' is bound to the string
> 'Use Ctrl-Z plus Return to exit.'
> so trying to call it as a function fails.
I'm _presuming_ there was a hidden `from sys import *` in there. Hence
calling exit with the string (the help for sys.exit shows that if a
string is passed in, it will be printed before the process exits with
failure -- something I wasn't aware of actually).
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