How to exit program with custom code and custom message?

Thomas Passin list1 at tompassin.net
Mon Mar 13 23:29:06 EDT 2023


On 3/13/2023 10:34 PM, scruel tao wrote:
> Lars:
>> I totally understand your reasoning here, but in some way it
>> follows the unix philosophy: Do only one thing, but do that good.

> I understand, python is not strongly typed, so `sys.exit` will be
> able to accept any types parameters rather than just integer. In
> order to handle such “other” types logic, I think this function
> already violated the unix philosophy, and there is no way to avoid
> it.

Most Python folks will say the Python *is* fairly strongly typed, but 
for a different definition of "type". That is, duck typing.




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