I don't know of any reason why that would be unsafe. You'll find several uses of sys.exit() in Django's built in commands located in django/core/management/commands.
On Friday, September 29, 2017 at 5:13:50 PM UTC-4, phep wrote: > > Hi, > > Executive summary : everything's in the subject line. > > Boring details : > > I have a Django application where I use a lot of custom commands, most > being > designed to be launched mostly by cron-jobs or other bash scripts of some > sorts. In this respect, the exit code value may be of utmost importance. > > Up until now, as I focused on the business logic part, when things went > wrong I just raised exceptions so that the return code was set to 1. So > good > so far. The problem is the output is rather uselessly verbose then. I'm in > the process of fixing things up in order to have some more concise output > on > failures. > > It seems to me I once read in the doc that one should not use sys.exit() > in > custom commands, but can't find exactly where it was - but I found some > allusions about this in StackOverflow comments. Yet I just sgoogumbled on > this ticket https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25419 where it seems > safe > to use it. > > AFAIAC, I would be using sys.exit() almost exclusively at the top level > inside the handle() method, while testing sub-routines return values of > catching exceptions. Tests I've run seems show this is working as I'd > expected, but I'd like to be sure there is no hidden traps before to > deploy > this code on the production server. > > So what is your take on this question ? > > Thanks in advance, > > phep > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/073d81cb-9fcf-4cce-9d57-3e34f184df67%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
