Éric Araujo added the comment:

Sorry, it is a deliberate choice to not have reprs have side-effects, 
espercially as important as quitting the interpreter.  The repr of quit/exit is 
used in places such as pydoc help; it would be bad to quit when the user wants 
to see documentation, for example.

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components: +Library (Lib) -Extension Modules
nosy: +eric.araujo
resolution:  -> rejected
stage:  -> committed/rejected
status: open -> closed
type:  -> enhancement

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