On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:03:15 +0100, Patrick Quinn-Graham <pf...@mac.com> wrote:
> On 9-Jun-08, at 4:28 AM, Eli Naeher wrote: > > > Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Apr 17 2008, 13:15:05) > > [GCC 4.2.3 (Debian 4.2.3-3)] on linux2 > > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>>> quit > > Use quit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit > >>>> exit > > Use exit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit > >>>> > > Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 15 2008, 22:57:26) > [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> quit() > Sophie:~ patrick$ > > Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 15 2008, 22:57:26) > [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> ^D > Sophie:~ patrick$ > > Considering you're writing code there, it doesn't seem unreasonable to > actually type the () to make it a function call. considering he does NOT want to write code here, but he wants to stop, quit, exit, or whatever, it is completely unreasonable to require the parens. Very valid hate indeed. > Ctrl-D also works fairly well... Sure, but that's not the point here, is it. Ctrl-C also refuses to quit python: $ python Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jan 10 2008, 18:00:49) [GCC 4.2.1 (SUSE Linux)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> ^C KeyboardInterrupt -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, & 11.23, SuSE 10.1 & 10.2, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
