aborting without killing the python interpreter

[Erik Max Francis]

Terry Reedy wrote:

> How?  In the standard interpreter, 'exit' is bound to the string
> 'Use Ctrl-Z plus Return to exit.'
> so trying to call it as a function fails.

I'm _presuming_ there was a hidden `from sys import *` in there.  Hence 
calling exit with the string (the help for sys.exit shows that if a 
string is passed in, it will be printed before the process exits with 
failure -- something I wasn't aware of actually).

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