Programmatically exit the REPL

[Matthew Fitzgibbons]

Alexander Schmolck wrote:
> Without reading your post properly or having tried to do the same thing
> myself: I think you might want to have a look at ipython; it gives a better
> REPL and "embedding ipython" should give you plenty of hits as well.
> 

Thanks for the tip; I hadn't heard of ipython before. I will certainly 
check it out. However, if anyone knows how to break out of the 
interactive interpreter from another thread, I'd still very much like to 
hear about it. :)

-Matt