Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > I want people to standardize on status=1 for a generic failure code.
Why that? Multiple error codes can be used by the same program, depending on the kind of error. > I want discourage people from using computed integer results as exit status. Ok, that's the first good argument for this feature. Although I would encourage people raise an exception if they want to signify a failure, rather than simply change the error code. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24053> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com