On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 11:33:21AM +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> 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.
But he is writing code. Interactive Python is like perls 'while (<>)
{eval}'. So, one either stops the input stream (^D), or you call a
function. And in Python, parenthesis aren't optional. Whitespace between
a function name and parenthesis are, and don't change the meaning of
the statement.
> > Ctrl-D also works fairly well...
>
> Sure, but that's not the point here, is it.
I've Python 2.4.1 on my system. And there neither quit() nor exit()
will stop interactive Python - just ^D.
> 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
Right. You're sending SIGINT - not SIGKILL, SIGTERM, nor SIGQUIT.
It's not unreasonable to not terminate the program on receiving SIGINT.
Abigail
