Charles-François Natali added the comment: One reason for not calling sys.exit() is because on Linux, the default implementation uses fork(), hence the address space in the chilren is a clone of the parent: so all atexit handlers, for example, would be called multiple times. There's also the problem that fork() isn't MT-safe, making the probability of screwups/deadlocks in various destructors/stack unwinding greater.
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