The "loop and a half"

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sat Oct 7 13:09:02 EDT 2017


On 10/7/2017 10:45 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2017-10-07, bartc <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:
> 
>> Interactive Python requires quit() or exit(), complete with parentheses.
> 
> Nonsense.  On Unix you can just press ctrl-D (or whatever you have
> configured as eof) at the command prompt. On windows, it's Ctrl-Z
> <Enter>.

IDLE's shell quits on ^D at a prompt on all systems.  (This became true 
before I worked on IDLE.)
Clicking the [X] button should close any window on all systems.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy




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