Re: sys.exit(1) vs raise SystemExit vs raise

From	Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: sys.exit(1) vs raise SystemExit vs raise
Date	2016-04-17 06:24 +1000
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Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> writes:

> On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 16:56:10 +1000, Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
> declaimed the following:
>
> >It seems strange that even the constant for “no error” exit status
> >should be defined only for Unix :-/
>
> 	VMS had a whole slew of "no error" status values

That's fine; those values can be defined per operating system, and
maybe they should be.

My concern is that (according to the documentation) the “no error” exit
status *isn't even defined* on non-Unix operating systems, as though
no other OS uses it.

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Ben Finney

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