[Python-Dev] quit() on the prompt (original) (raw)
Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Wed Mar 8 13:39:51 CET 2006
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Oleg Broytmann wrote:
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 12:37:47AM +0100, Thomas Wouters wrote:
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 :-) It has a bad side-effect of returning an error code to the calling shell: $ python && echo Ok || echo Error! Python 2.4.2 (#1, Oct 3 2005, 20:57:52) [GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. raise SystemExit("quit() called") quit() called Error! (At least, I consider that a bad side-effect.)
I should imagine the use cases for running an interactive Python shell as a part of a script are fairly few and far between, though.
regards Steve
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