[Pythonmac-SIG] sys.exit() functionality

[Martin Miller]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 15:29:21 +0100, Jack Jansen wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday, January 29, 2002, at 08:54 , Jon Bradley wrote:
> 
> > hey all,
> >
> > In embedded Python - why does sys.exit() quit out of the application 
> > that's
> > embedding the interpreter?  Is there any way to trap or disregard this?
> >
> > If a user creates an application with Python and runs it through the
> > embedded interpreter, calling quit or exit on the Python application 
> > itself
> > is more than ok, but allowing it to force out of the parent application
> > isn't.
> 
> Sounds reasonable. How about a routine PyMac_SetExitFunc() that you 
> could call to set your own exit function, (similar to 
> PyMac_SetConsoleHandler())? MacPython would then do all it's normal 
> cleanup, but at the very end call your routine in stead of exit().

With an approach like the above, wouldn't it be better to have a
platform-independent way of defining a custom exit function, rather than
calling a Mac-only system function -- or is this whole thing only an
issue with MacPython embedding?

Martin