Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: The key issue here is not to report success for nonzero values.
I consider the following a bug: $ python3 Python 3.4.2 (default, Oct 30 2014, 08:51:12) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.54)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.exit(256) $ echo $? 0 ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14376> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com