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Tue Dec 27 23:57:54 CET 2005 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/059144.html

It sounds to me like what is being proposed amounts to essentially
"promote sys.exit to a builtin".  So why not do that?

I see two options.  Either:

    (a) Simply let __builtins__.exit = sys.exit.  Then we get:

        >>> exit
        <built-in function exit>

        which may be enough of a clue that you type "exit()" to exit.

    (b) If more handholding seems like a good idea, then:

        class ExitHatch:
            def __call__(self): sys.exit()
            def __repr__(self): return '<Type "exit()" to exit Python.>'
        __builtins__.exit = __builtins__.quit = ExitHatch()

-- ?!ng

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