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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