Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >>> Hmm, you sure exit won't work? >> >> In the interactive interpreter, exit is bound to a special helper object: >> >> py> exit >> Use exit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit >> >> Otherwise, you'll get NameError. > > It's not the interactive interpreter alone. I tried it in a script > before posting.
Well I'll be mogadored. Serves me right for not testing before posting. [...] > I've no idea how far back to go before it comes up with a NameError. > However, this is provided (as is made clear by the type lines) by > site.py, and so can be disabled. But with default settings, it is > possible to use exit(1) to set your return value. It's a bad idea to rely on features added to site.py, since they aren't necessarily going to be available at all sites or in all implementations: steve@orac:/home/steve$ ipy IronPython 2.6 Beta 2 DEBUG (2.6.0.20) on .NET 2.0.50727.1433 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> exit(2) steve@orac:/home/steve$ Bugger me, I'm going home! -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
