[Python-Dev] quit() on the prompt (original) (raw)

Crutcher Dunnavant crutcher at gmail.com
Wed Mar 8 00:26:17 CET 2006


I am probably the biggest proponent of magic variables, but this just won't work. First, commands and lines are not the same thing, so:

print
exit

breaks your propossal.

Second, quit and exit are bindable variables, and you need to be sure that they still mean quit, and not something else.

On 3/7/06, BJörn Lindqvist <bjourne at gmail.com> wrote:

do { cmd = readline() dostuffwithcmd(cmd); } while (!strcmp(cmd, "quit")); printf("Bye!"); exit(0);

KISS? -- mvh Björn


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