[ python-Bugs-1173637 ] quit should quit

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Bugs item #1173637, was opened at 2005-03-30 13:37
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
Submitted By: Matt Chaput (mchaput)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: quit should quit

Initial Comment:
When the user types "quit" in the interpreter, instead
of quitting the program gives him or her a lecture on
the "proper" way to quit.

This is very obnoxious.

Since the interpreter obviously understands the "quit"
command, it should just quit, dammit.

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Comment By: Ilya Sandler (isandler)
Date: 2005-03-31 20:35

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I am not sure adding quit to interpreter is such a good idea:

Right now quit is treated as an ordinary (non-keyword)
identifier...
(with a bit of magic: if quit is not defined then lecture
the user :-))...

E.g now you can do this:

 >>> quit=2 
 >>> quit
 2

Would you want to disallow this usage when quit becomes a
"magic word"?



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Comment By: Michael Hudson (mwh)
Date: 2005-03-31 01:49

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I'm not so sure typing quit should quit -- that doesn't seem like Python to 
me (how would you implement it?)

Having quit be the same object as sys.exit seems sensible.

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Comment By: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger)
Date: 2005-03-30 14:11

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I concur!

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