--help option: sys.exit or return?

Hi, I'm new to this list and also new to python and optik. So, first I
would like to say thank you for the optik (optparse) module, because it is
a very good improvemnet over getopt and second, please forgive any naive
or dumb thoughts I might have due to the lack of python knowledge. Now to
my question...

When Optik calls sys.exit(), because it encounters --version, --help, or
an error your interactive Python interpreter will exit.

Is there a better solution to this? For example, a way to 'exit' only if
the script was run from outside the python interpreter (i.e. if __name__
== "__main__") and only 'return' from the main function if it was run from
the interpreter.

Thanks Miguel.


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