[Python-Dev] Fwd: [Pythonmac-SIG] sys.exit() functionality

[Jack Jansen]

This discussion started on pythonmac-SIG, but someone suggested 
that it isn't really a MacPython-specific issue (even though the 
implementation will be different for MacPython from unix-Python).

Any opinions?

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Martin Miller <mmiller@adobe.com>
> Date: Wed Jan 30, 2002  08:14:13  PM Europe/Amsterdam
> To: pythonmac-sig@python.org
> Subject: Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] sys.exit() functionality
>
> 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
>
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