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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Dec 28 18:28:22 CET 2005

[Alex]

Just brainstorming, but -- maybe this means we should generalize the idea? I.e., allow other cases in which "just mentioning X" means "call function Y [with the following arguments]", at least at the interactive prompt if not more generally. If /F's idea gets implemented by binding to names 'exit' and 'quit' the result of some factory-call with "function to be called" set to sys.exit and "arguments for it" set to () [[as opposed to specialcasing checks of last commandline for equality to 'exit' &c]]

[Walter]

We have sys.displayhook and sys.excepthook. Why not add a sys.inputhook? sys.inputhook gets passed each line entered and may return True if it has processed the line inself and False if normal handling of the input should be done. This allows special treatment of "quit", "exit", "help" and it might make implementing alternative shells for Python easier (without having to subclass code.InteractiveConsole).

[Alex]

then the implementation of the generalization would be no harder. I do find myself in sessions in which I want to perform some action repeatedly, and currently the least typing is 4 characters (x()) while this would reduce it to two

Hmm. . .

def default_inputhook(statement): try: aliased = sys.aliases[statement] except KeyError: return False else: aliased() return True

sys.aliases = dict(exit=sys.exit, quit=sys.exit) sys.inputhook = default_inputhook

I think Walter's idea may have merit (although I believe the input hook should be passed whole statements, rather than individual lines).

Cheers, Nick.

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