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

Hans Nowak hans at zephyrfalcon.org
Tue Dec 27 21:11:39 CET 2005

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

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.

Except that on Windows, it's Ctrl-Z. This can be quite confusing when you regularly use Python on both Windows and Unix, and use the wrong key combination. Ctrl-D on Windows does not have the desired result, and Ctrl-Z on Unix suspends the process. (And if you use a GUI version, they often have their own rules... on IDLE for Windows, Ctrl-D works but Ctrl-Z doesn't; on PyCrust, neither one works.)

Granted, it's not a big problem, but it is annoying. IMHO, it would be more useful if you could just type 'exit' or 'quit' (like in many other interpreters) and be done with it, rather than having to remember the correct key combination. (A key combination which has nothing to do with the Python language per se.)

-- Hans Nowak http://zephyrfalcon.org/

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