Terry Reedy wrote: > How? In the standard interpreter, 'exit' is bound to the string > 'Use Ctrl-Z plus Return to exit.' > so trying to call it as a function fails.
I'm _presuming_ there was a hidden `from sys import *` in there. Hence calling exit with the string (the help for sys.exit shows that if a string is passed in, it will be printed before the process exits with failure -- something I wasn't aware of actually). -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis God heals, and the doctor takes the fee. -- Benjamin Franklin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list