Re: exit status

Greg Ward <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:28:24 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.python.optik.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 12 June 2003, David Goodger said:
> Shouldn't optik/optparse produce an exit status of 2 in
> OptionParser.error?  It's currently producing exit status 1.  From the
> "sys" module docs,
> 
>     exit([arg])
>         Exit from Python. ... The optional argument arg can be an
>         integer giving the exit status ... Unix programs generally use
>         2 for command line syntax errors and 1 for all other kind of
>         errors.

Got any more compelling source than that?  On my Debian box, cp, ls,
file, and rcs exit 1 on bad option; tar, diff, grep, and Python itself
exit 2.  It's a draw so far.

        Greg
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