Alexander Belopolsky added the comment: > This can be implemented as separate module on PyPI.
Sure! Make them even less discoverable! Let me try to state my motivations for adding these constants: 1. I find exit(EXIT_FAILURE) much clearer than exit(1). 2. I want people to standardize on status=1 for a generic failure code. I do see exit(-1) used as often as exit(1). 3. I want discourage people from using computed integer results as exit status. For example, # process files and store errors in a list sys.exit(len(errors)) # bad - success for multiples of 256 errors sys.exit(sys.EXIT_SUCCESS if not errors else sys.EXIT_FAILURE) # good ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24053> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
