On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 06:25:51 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:08 AM, Mel <mwil...@the-wire.com> wrote: >> But sys.exit() doesn't return a string. My fave is > > It doesn't return _at all_. Boom, process terminated.
Technically it raises an exception, which can then be caught by the usual exception-handling mechanism. So it's not quite Boom. >>> try: ... sys.exit(42) ... except SystemExit as e: ... print(e.code) ... 42 >>> -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
