os._exit(), os.kill(os.getpid(), 9)

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000 14:54:29 +0100, Gerrit Holl <gerrit.holl at pobox.com> wrote:

>os._exit(127)

This exits with exit code 127 and doesn't clean up...

>os.kill(os.getpid(), 9)

Rather make that
os.kill(os.getpid(), signal.SIGKILL)

This makes the interpreter kill itself with SIGKILL. The exit code is
undefined.

Ergo those two are NOT equivalent.