Looking for a way to stop execution of script, in the script

[Josh Bloom]

Thanks Fredrik, yeah the while loop for single run is pretty stupid.

sys.exit() thats the call I was looking for.

-Josh

On 11/14/06, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
>
> Josh Bloom wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone, I'm looking for a way to stop execution of a script from
> > within the script.
> >
> > I'm familiar with this idiom:
> >
> > While 1:
> >   doFirstThing()
> >   doSecondThing()
> >   if something:
> >     break
> >   doThirdThing()
> >   break
>
> I'm not.  why are you using a while statement to execute the code once?
>
> > doFirstThing()
> > doSecondThing()
> > if something:
> >     die
> > doThirdThing()
>
> sys.exit() ?
>
> (or if you prefer, "raise SystemExit")
>
> </F>
>
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