Re: how to stop python

2006-08-02 Thread Laurent Pointal
victor a écrit : > or if u want explicit exit of program then use: > > import sys > sys.exit(1) > > or > > raise SystemExit, 'message' There is also the (not recommanded - see docs, but it exists) os._exit(n) function. A+ Laurent. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how to stop python

2006-07-31 Thread victor
or if u want explicit exit of program then use: import sys sys.exit(1) or raise SystemExit, 'message' Dan wrote: > bruce bedouglas at earthlink.net posted: > > > perl has the concept of "die". does python have anything > > similar. how can a python app be stopped? > > I see this sort of state

re: how to stop python

2006-07-30 Thread Dan
bruce bedouglas at earthlink.net posted: > perl has the concept of "die". does python have anything > similar. how can a python app be stopped? I see this sort of statement a lot in Perl: open(FH, "myfile.txt") or die ("Could not open file"); I've no idea why you're asking for the Python

Re: how to stop python...

2006-07-03 Thread Paul Rubin
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wow, so many people with the same solution... where's the creativity > folks? > > Whenever sys.exit() doesn't work for me, I find that a good solid thump > on the side of the computer case with a large mallet tends to do the > job. And there's alw

Re: how to stop python...

2006-07-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wow, so many people with the same solution... where's the creativity folks? Whenever sys.exit() doesn't work for me, I find that a good solid thump on the side of the computer case with a large mallet tends to do the job. And there's always threatening the computer with a degaussing gun! -- htt

Re: how to stop python...

2006-07-03 Thread John Machin
On 3/07/2006 2:27 PM, bruce wrote: > hi... > > perl has the concept of "die". > does python have anything similar. how can a > python app be stopped? > > the docs refer to a sys.stop.. but i can't find anything else... am i > missing something... > Inter alia, sys.exit() and a functional Shift

Re: how to stop python...

2006-07-02 Thread Paul McGuire
"bruce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > hi... > > perl has the concept of "die". does python have anything similar. how can a > python app be stopped? > > the docs refer to a sys.stop.. but i can't find anything else... am i > missing something... > > thanks > > -bruce

Re: how to stop python...

2006-07-02 Thread Simon Forman
bruce wrote: > hi... > > perl has the concept of "die". does python have anything similar. how can a > python app be stopped? > > the docs refer to a sys.stop.. but i can't find anything else... am i > missing something... > > thanks > > -bruce What you want is sys.exit() See: http://docs.python.o

Re: how to stop python...

2006-07-02 Thread Alex Martelli
bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi... > > perl has the concept of "die". does python have anything similar. how can a > python app be stopped? > > the docs refer to a sys.stop.. but i can't find anything else... am i > missing something... import sys sys.exit() Alex -- http://mail.python

Re: how to stop python...

2006-07-02 Thread Tim Peters
[bruce] > perl has the concept of "die". does python have anything similar. how can a > python app be stopped? > > the docs refer to a sys.stop. Python docs? Doubt it ;-) > but i can't find anything else... am i missing something... >>> import sys >>> print sys.exit.__doc__ exit([status]) Exit