On 2020-05-28 18:02, Greg Ewing wrote:
If __name__ == '__main__':
     sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))

It's not clear that exiting with the return value of main() is
the most Pythonic thing to do -- it's more of a C idiom that


If you'd like a script to be uhh, highly-scriptable, returning one of the os.EX_* status codes can be useful to communicate back to the calling shell what happened.

First catch the exceptions, convert to the appropriate status code, then return at the end.

-Mike
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