[Python-Dev] a quit that actually quits (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Dec 27 17:58:49 CET 2005

Ronald Oussoren wrote:

I'd prefer 'def quit(): raise SystemExit', the class above just adds a message for someone that accidently got stuck in a python shell. I don't like the idea of making quit or exit special enough to cause side effects without parentheses, no other function does that. Anyone that knows how to program in Python should be able to guess that you have to use 'quit()' instead of 'quit'.

The thing is there primarily for people who don't know how to program in Python. If they knew, they knew how to get out of it; they wouldn't type "quit()" but simply Ctrl-D.

So if they do

quit <function quit at 0xb7d96294>

they are just as confused as if they got a name error.

Regards, Martin

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