Mark Hammond <skippy.hamm...@gmail.com> added the comment:

Note the quoted documentation in comment 1, the paragraph "Note that if an 
otherwise unhandled SystemError ..."

I don't think that paragraph is correct - SystemError doesn't seem to terminate 
Py_Main - but if you replace "SystemError" with "SystemExit", that paragraph is 
correct, including the comment about Py_InspectFlag.

So I think there are 2 simple documentation bugs (the component of this bug is 
"Documentation") and not necessarily a behaviour bug (even though the "type" is 
set to behaviour :)

* The first paragraph should have references to sys.exit() removed (I didn't 
mention this in my previous comment!)

* The second paragraph should s/SystemError/SystemExit/ and optionally a note 
that calling sys.exit() will result in a SystemExit exception.

I just traced through this in Python 2.6 - PyRun_InteractiveOneFlags winds up 
calling PyErr_PrintEx() and this function explicitly checks for SystemExit and 
calls handle_system_exit, which calls exit().  There doesn't seem to be any 
special handling for SystemError at all.

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