On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> On 06/27/2013 03:49 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> >> 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. >> > > So a library that is explicitly designed to make command-line scripts > easier and friendlier should quit with a traceback? > > Really? > Perhaps put the functionality "handling of the exception of library to sys.exit with a message" into a method so that the user can override it (e.g., so that it just throw the same exception to the caller of the library)?
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