Please note that this post has subject "stop script w/o exiting interpreter".
The object is to work at the *interactive* interpreter, without leaving it. Here is an example goal: start a Python shell, execfile a script, exit the script at line 25, and return to the Python shell. E.g., some languages include a ``stop`` statement that you can put on line 25. Ideally, I would like the equivalent of this. Solutions suggested in this thread included: - raise SystemExit but this will exit the interpreter - sys.exit() but this will exit the interpreter - use pdb's set_trace() but I think that answers a different question. (However it does work to raise BdbQuit, but I'd like something less messy.) - wrap all code in functions and test the functions but this does not apply to my current use case - use PyScripter but this is overkill for my very simple goal Note that I can just put the undefined name ``stop`` on any line I want, and the script will stop execucting at that line and will return to the interactive interpreter, as I wish. It is just that it returns with an error message, and I'd like to avoid that. Thanks, Alan Isaac -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list