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On Tue, 8 Dec 2015 16:30:53 +0530, Ganesh Pal <ganesh1pal@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>> Finally. sys.exit accepts an integer, not a string.
>>
>
>Most of code  uses sys.exit("some error message")   ,  I did notice
>that the error message is not displayed by sys .exit("some error
>message") ,  do  u mean that using string is not advisable with
>sys.exit ?
>How to I display error messages with sys.exit then ?
>
	Literally? You don't... You return a status code to the environment,
and the environment that invoked your program is responsible for how to
display the status code. This may be nothing more than dumping a line like:

error: #


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