Re: exit status

On 13 June 2003, David Goodger said:
> There's a slight difference in semantics with the change.  If the 
> SystemExit exception is caught, no error message would be written wit 
> the original code:
> 
>         sys.exit("%s: error: %s" % (get_prog_name(), msg))
> 
> But the error message would be written with the new code:
> 
>         sys.stderr.write("%s: error: %s\n" % (get_prog_name(), msg))
>         sys.exit(2)
> 
> Very minor difference, and probably not significant.

Good point.  The ability to catch SystemExit is a feature, and error
messages appearing on stderr in such a case would be bad.  So, on
reflection, please don't make this change.

        Greg
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Greg Ward <[email protected]>                         http://www.gerg.ca/
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