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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 23:59:38 +0100
Subject: Re: Sudoku
From: Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com>
To: Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
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On 31 March 2013 23:34, Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> wrote:
>[...]  With my Python
> 2.7.2, exit(something) with something being a string prints the string and
> then exits.  Nowhere have I seen that documented, and I thought it either
> took an int or nothing.

It is documented, just not exactly where you'd expect it (exit is a
constant, not a function):

    http://docs.python.org/2/library/constants.html#constants-added-by-the-site-module

As for the behaviour when you pass a string, it's documented here:

    http://docs.python.org/2/library/exceptions.html#exceptions.SystemExit

-- 
Arnaud