I have a python program that takes integer only inputs like this:
Valid = False
while not Valid:
try:
x = int(Input("enter integer value"))
Valid = True
except:
pass
For easier debugging, I want to be able to terminate the program while it is running by giving an exit command as an input, rather than by killing the terminal, so I wrote this function:
def Input(message):
x = input(message)
if x == "exit":
#something to terminate program
return x
By my understanding, common options like sys.exit() and os._exit() work by raising a SystemExit exception so they are ignored.
Is there a more definite way of terminating a program without raising an exception?
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If I understood correctly, os._exit() doesn’t raise a SystemExit exception, have you tried using that?
whereas sys.exit(), as you rightly stated raises and exception.
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