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Fri Jan 13 11:04:35 CET 2006 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-January/059726.html

Tony Meyer wrote:

> Fredrik Lundh kicked off a surprisingly long thread when he proposed
> that typing "quit" or "exit" in the interactive prompt actually exit
> (i.e. raises SystemError)

SystemExit

>     >>> def exit():
>     ...      print "bye"
>
>    >>> # what is it?
>     >>> exit
>
>     $ oops!
>
> (However, one could simply type "repr(exit)" in this case).

too late:

    >>> exit
    $ repr(exit)
    bash: syntax error near unexpected token `repr(exit)'

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