[Python-Dev] a quit that actually quits

[Jeremy Kloth]

Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
> I'd be happy with having Python exit when the user types just plain
> 'exit' without parentheses, but only in that case, not others.
> However, i'm starting to think that may be impossible to implement.
> I can't think of any way to make 'print exit' not exit, for example.

OK, here's one:

def quithook(obj, _exit=__builtins__.exit, _displayhook=sys.displayhook):
    if obj is _exit: raise SystemExit
    _displayhook(obj)
sys.displayhook = quithook

It does, however, fall into the whole issue of chaining that Skip brought up
earlier.

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Jeremy Kloth
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