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

Thomas Wouters thomas at python.org
Wed Mar 8 00:37:47 CET 2006

On 3/8/06, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

On 3/7/06, Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote: > class Quitter(object): > def init(self, name): > self.name = name > def repr(self): > return 'Use %s() to exit' % self.name > def call(self): > raise SystemExit() > quit = Quitter('quit') > exit = Quitter('exit') +1 from me. Only change I would make is pass an argument to SystemExit() such as "%s() called", although the chances of this exception being caught is very slim.

Raising SystemExit("quit() called") has an additional benefit (although the wording could use some work):

raise SystemExit("quit() called") quit() called

(At least, I consider that a benefit :-)

Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org>

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