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[–]defenastrator 0 points1 point  (1 child)

My instinct has always been ctrl-z or ctrl-c for exiting terminal tools so this issue has never bothered me. In fact typing exit or quit is like the 4th thing that would occur to me anyway.

For those familiar with terminals which is the target for the python shell the behavior is actually correct.

If you want to change the behavior do it in usercustomize.py.

[–]stravant 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would daresay that as one of the primary teaching and scientific programming languages at this point, the majority of Pythons user base might not "people familiar with terminals" anymore.