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Wed Dec 28 20:44:52 CET 2005 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/059215.html

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Walter Dörwald wrote:
> 
>> We have sys.displayhook and sys.excepthook. Why not add a sys.inputhook?
>> sys.inputhook gets passed each line entered and may return True if it has
>> processed the line inself and False if normal handling of the input should be
>> done. This allows special treatment of "quit", "exit", "help" /.../
> 
> so how would such a hook deal with the
> 
>     >>> def exit():
>     ...     pass
>     >>> exit
> 
> case ?

In the inputhook one would have to check for "exit" being defined at
interpreter level.

Reinhold

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