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
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.
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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
