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[Python-Dev] quit() on the prompt

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Wed Mar 8 20:47:26 CET 2006 
Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
> 
> Neil Schemenauer wrote:
> >>Bad idea, as several pointed out -- quit() should return a 0 exit
> >>to the shell.
> > 
> > 
> > I like the idea of making "quit" callable.  One small concern I have
> > is that people will use it in scripts to exit (rather than one of
> > the other existing ways to exit).  OTOH, maybe that's a feature.
> 
> I actually thought it was only defined for interactive sessions, but a 
> brief test shows I was wrong.  It doesn't bother me, but it does make me 
> think that exit(1) should exit with a code of one.

Sounds like the quit/exit bits are becoming aliases for sys.exit with
special docstrings.  That would be fine with me.

 - Josiah
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