Message 62083 - Python tracker

Message62083

Author	Rhamphoryncus
Recipients	Rhamphoryncus, brett.cannon, ggenellina, gpk, jamescooper, thomasda, yangzhang
Date	2008-02-05.23:20:21
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Message-id	<1202253622.38.0.665958561984.issue1722344@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I disagree. sys.exit() attempts to gracefully shutdown the interpreter, invoking try/finally blocks and the like. If you want to truly force shutdown you should use os.abort() or os._exit(). Note that, as python doesn't call a main function, you have to use sys.exit() to have an exit status.

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I disagree.  sys.exit() attempts to gracefully shutdown the interpreter,
invoking try/finally blocks and the like.  If you want to truly force
shutdown you should use os.abort() or os._exit().

Note that, as python doesn't call a main function, you have to use
sys.exit() to have an exit status.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-02-05 23:20:22	Rhamphoryncus	set	spambayes_score: 0.048082 -> 0.04808197 recipients: + Rhamphoryncus, brett.cannon, gpk, ggenellina, yangzhang, thomasda, jamescooper
2008-02-05 23:20:22	Rhamphoryncus	set	spambayes_score: 0.048082 -> 0.048082 messageid: <1202253622.38.0.665958561984.issue1722344@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-02-05 23:20:21	Rhamphoryncus	link	issue1722344 messages
2008-02-05 23:20:21	Rhamphoryncus	create