2.6 and sys.exit()

[hetchkay]

Hello,

Thanks for your help.

I know what SystemExit is. In 2.5 as well SystemExit is raised when
sys.exit() is called. For example:
try:
  import sys
  sys.exit(0)
except SystemExit:
  print "system exit raised"
  raise

But I don't understand why the interpreter does not exit in 2.6 but
does exit in 2.5. Well, I do not need to understand that but I need to
know how to get the interpreter to exit in 2.6.

Regards,
Krishnan