how to stop python...

[bruce]

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

[Alex Martelli]

Re: how to stop python...

bruce <bedouglas@eart hlink.netwrote:

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

[Simon Forman]

Re: how to stop python...

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.org/lib/module-sys.html

[Paul McGuire]

Re: how to stop python...

"bruce" <bedouglas@eart hlink.netwrote in message
news:mailman.77 13.1151900654.2 7775.python-list@python.org ...

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
>

(From the interactive Python prompt:)

import sys
dir(sys)
['__displayhook_ _', '__doc__', '__excepthook__ ', '__name__', '__stderr__',
'__st
din__', '__stdout__', '_getframe', 'api_version', 'argv',
'builtin_module _names'
, 'byteorder', 'call_tracing', 'callstats', 'copyright', 'displayhook',
'dllhand
le', 'exc_clear', 'exc_info', 'exc_type', 'excepthook', 'exec_prefix',
'executab
le', 'exit', 'getcheckinterv al', 'getdefaultenco ding',
'getfilesysteme ncoding',
'getrecursionli mit', 'getrefcount', 'getwindowsvers ion', 'hexversion',
'maxint',
'maxunicode', 'meta_path', 'modules', 'path', 'path_hooks',
'path_importer_ cach
e', 'platform', 'prefix', 'ps1', 'ps2', 'setcheckinterv al', 'setprofile',
'setre
cursionlimit', 'settrace', 'stderr', 'stdin', 'stdout', 'version',
'version_info
', 'warnoptions', 'winver']

(Hmmm, no mention of "stop", but perhaps "exit"???)

help(sys.exit)

Help on built-in function exit in module sys:

exit(...)
exit([status])

Exit the interpreter by raising SystemExit(stat us).
If the status is omitted or None, it defaults to zero (i.e., success).
If the status is numeric, it will be used as the system exit status.
If it is another kind of object, it will be printed and the system
exit status will be one (i.e., failure).


sys.exit()

Voila!

and now this from the "What's new in Python 2.5":
---------------------------
In the interactive interpreter, quit and exit have long been strings so that
new users get a somewhat helpful message when they try to quit:

>>quit

'Use Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit.'
In Python 2.5, quit and exit are now objects that still produce string
representations of themselves, but are also callable. Newbies who try quit()
or exit() will now exit the interpreter as they expect. (Implemented by
Georg Brandl.)

---------------------------

So from the ">>>" Python prompt, instead of ^D to exit, one can type quit()
or exit(). Or if sys has been imported, sys.exit(). From within a script,
one can call sys.exit().

-- Paul

[John Machin]

Re: how to stop python...

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 key.

[cmdrrickhunter@yaho.com]

Re: how to stop python...

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!

[Paul Rubin]

Re: how to stop python...

"cmdrrickhunter @yaho.com" <conrad.ammon@g mail.comwrites:

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!

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