[issue20016] make site.py Quitter call itself on repr
New submission from Derek Wilson: calling exit() or quit() is actually very cumbersome especially as most other commandline tools that have a command interface allow you to exit or quit by typing exit or quit and not by calling a function. if quitter's builtins are only available in the interactive interpreter this seems like it would be perfectly safe. now that we are looking at 3.x going forward, perhaps we can reopen this: http://bugs.python.org/issue8220 -- components: Extension Modules files: quit_from_repr.patch keywords: patch messages: 206537 nosy: underrun priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: make site.py Quitter call itself on repr versions: Python 3.5 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file33194/quit_from_repr.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue20016 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue20016] make site.py Quitter call itself on repr
Ramchandra Apte added the comment: -1 that would be weird behavior; typing a function name shouldn't run it. Python on the command line is still Python. -- nosy: +Ramchandra Apte ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue20016 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue20016] make site.py Quitter call itself on repr
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. -- components: +Library (Lib) -Extension Modules nosy: +eric.araujo resolution: - rejected stage: - committed/rejected status: open - closed type: - enhancement ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue20016 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
