Probably the same reason why ipython always asks "Do you really want to exit ([y]/n)?" if you type Ctrl-D. I call it the "overly attached Python interpreter" ;-)
On Friday, January 4, 2013 10:35:21 AM UTC, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > Why this? > > > sage: sys.exit() > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > SystemExit Traceback (most recent call > last) > > /usr/local/src/sage-5.5.rc1/<ipython console> in <module>() > > SystemExit: > Type %exit or %quit to exit IPython (%Exit or %Quit do so > unconditionally). > sage: > > > It's clearly an intentional IPython thing, but I don't see why this > "feature" of not exiting would be useful. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
