Halt, stop, quit, exit?
John J. Lee
jjl at pobox.com
Mon Oct 13 15:16:07 EDT 2003
Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> writes:
> Stephen Horne wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 13:55:19 +0100, Simon Faulkner
> > <news at titanic.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >>Does Python have a command that just stops all processing?
> >
> > Yes : sys.exit (value)
> >
> > See the library docs for details.
> >
> > However, IMO this is normally the wrong thing. I would normally raise
> > an exception,
>
> ...and that's what sys.exit does on your behalf: it raises the
> built-in exception SystemExit. If you choose to use a raise
[...]
But if you (Simon) really want to just exit unconditionally, it's
os._exit(code)
John
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