imaplib: is this really so unwieldy?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2021-05-25, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>>Oh ok, it seemed to be fine.  Would it be the right way to do it with 
>>sys.exit()?  Having to import another library just to end a program 
>>might not be ideal.
>
> 	I've never had to use sys. for exit...

I would have sworn you used to have to import sys to use exit(). Am I
misremembering?

Apparently exit() and sys.exit() aren't the same, so what is the
difference between the builtin exit and sys.exit?