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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Dec 30 03:45:03 CET 2005

Neil Schemenauer wrote:

Scott David Daniels <Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org> wrote:

Or, perhaps: class Quitter(str): def call(self): raise SystemExit quit = Quitter('The quit command. Type "quit()" to exit') exit = Quitter('The exit command. Type "exit()" to exit') FWIW, I like this kind of solution best. Something magical would be a mistake. I don't like the status quo because there is no cross-plaform way to indicate EOF (or more pedantically "push current line"). Maybe we can make everyone happy by making the 'quit' and 'exit' objects callable and changing the message to something like: Use quit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit. Cheers,

This sounds pretty good actually (especially combined with the modifed startup banner which tells you how to exit).

As Fernando pointed out, anything else means we'd be well on our way to re-inventing IPython (although I'd be interested to know if sys.inputhook would have made IPython easier to write).

Cheers, Nick.

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