On 27Jun2013 22:49, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: | [rant] | I think it is lousy design for a framework like argparse to raise a | custom ArgumentError in one part of the code, only to catch it elsewhere | and call sys.exit. At the very least, that ought to be a config option, | and off by default. | | Libraries should not call sys.exit, or raise SystemExit. Whether to quit | or not is not the library's decision to make, that decision belongs to | the application layer. Yes, the application could always catch | SystemExit, but it shouldn't have to.
+1 -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
