Bugs item #1173637, was opened at 2005-03-30 13:37 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by isandler You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1173637&group_id=5470
Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Ilya Sandler (isandler) Date: 2005-03-31 20:35 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=971153 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"? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Michael Hudson (mwh) Date: 2005-03-31 01:49 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=6656 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger) Date: 2005-03-30 14:11 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=80475 I concur! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1173637&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
