On Sun, Feb 12, 2017, at 07:26, Alex Walters wrote: > On august 7th, 1998, Guido committed > https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d89fa0c5761254c970af72e5abcea420fd2 > 3e893 to python, adding the quit() and exit() built-ins. He decided to > determine the platform python was running on by checking os.sep. I don't > understand the rationale behind this choice in 1998, but I assume that > there > was one.
My guess would be that the rationale was to group Windows together with DOS and OS/2. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
