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Re:You can't do that because I hate you by nneonneo on Thursday December 28, 2023 @04:58PM (#38799224)
Yeah, and it’s also useful to teach newbies about the usual syntax for doing things rather than introducing special-case magic. It would be _weird_ to just quit after writing a bare “exit”.
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Re:You can't do that because I hate you by gizmo on Thursday December 28, 2023 @06:13PM (#38799917)
ipython intentionally diverges from the regular python REPL. It just quits like you expect without crying about it.
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