On 12/27/05, Ka-Ping Yee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It sounds to me like what is being proposed amounts to essentially > "promote sys.exit to a builtin". So why not do that? > > I see two options. Either: > > (a) Simply let __builtins__.exit = sys.exit. Then we get: > > >>> exit > <built-in function exit> > > which may be enough of a clue that you type "exit()" to exit. > > (b) If more handholding seems like a good idea, then: > > class ExitHatch: > def __call__(self): sys.exit() > def __repr__(self): return '<Type "exit()" to exit Python.>' > __builtins__.exit = __builtins__.quit = ExitHatch() >
I prefer (b) since this does need to be newbie-friendly and thus self explaining. I would prefer the name ExitInterpreter for the class and including the keyboard shortcut in the message as well. And Tim had a good point about PDAs and such; how are they supposed to exit? What if someone picked up Python for their Nokia S60 phone and tried to exit from the interpreter? Unless Nokia has tweaked something I don't know how they would know to exit without knowing about sys.exit() or raising SystemExit since I wouldn't know how to do the equivalent Ctrl-D on a cell phone. -Brett _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com