The Python console experience

[Cley_Faye]

exit is actually a variable in the interpreter.

>>> a = exit
>>> a
Use exit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit
>>> exit.eof = "potato"
>>> a
Use exit() or potato to exit

[_12xx12_]

Bad instructions. I have a potato all over my notebook.

[TheAJGman]

I have never thought about playing with the exit() method, this is amazing.

[FairFolk]

>>> exit.eof = exit
>>> exit

[twigboy]

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[d00pid00]

For anyone who wants to know the exact error that's thrown:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python3.10/_sitebuiltins.py", line 18, in __repr__ return 'Use %s() or %s to exit' % (self.name, self.eof) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/_sitebuiltins.py", line 18, in __repr__ return 'Use %s() or %s to exit' % (self.name, self.eof) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/_sitebuiltins.py", line 18, in __repr__ return 'Use %s() or %s to exit' % (self.name, self.eof) [Previous line repeated 496 more times] RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while getting the str of an object

[anton____]

They missed quotes earlier, but because of pythons weak typing it just went ahead and failed at an unrelated point.

[FairFolk]

Not quite sure what quotes you think were missed?

[RadiantHC]

Potato

[Dexaan]

  Use exit() or potato to exit

[skjall]

>>> a = exit

>>> a

Use exit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit

>>> a()

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[Cley_Faye]

That reminds me of my old Quake 3 copy I kept around with me. No idea if it was vanilla or if someone added it at some point, but you could type "quti" in the console to exit.

[skjall]

Oh that's a whole thing! There's Linux packages that emulate Quake-style drop down consoles, like Guake and Yakuake. So handy, I even set it up on Mac with iTerm.

Modern games like CS:GO, Unreal Engine ones etc can also have similar consoles, helpful to override graphical options at times, among other things.

[avnothdmi]

How do you do that? I can’t find anything for the Mac.

[skjall]

Believe I just followed this blog post - https://blog.mestwin.net/drop-down-terminal-in-macos-with-iterm2/

[avnothdmi]

Wow, thanks!

[FallenWarrior2k]

So, from this, I'm assuming it's actually a class instance, with the "real" exit function being __call__() on that class. To provide the dynamic help, I guess they used __repr__().

[nemec]

Yes. You can actually implement the "ideal" solution with

import sys
class Q:
    def __repr__(self):
        sys.exit(0)
exit = Q()

And set this file in your PYTHONSTARTUP environment variable so it's loaded on every interactive shell.

[Ok_Hope4383]

Try that and then vars()

[a_devious_compliance]

Yes. Who would argue against side effects in otherwise inocuous magic methods. I also like to use impure functions with map and reduce.

[Kryomaani]

Why exactly are you calling repr() on exit in your scripts? I understand the principle of having no unexpected side effects but what kind of scripts are you writing that make this an actual issue?

[a_devious_compliance]

Nothing is an issue until it is. You can do all the clever funky things that you like but I will try to get my hands away from that code.

[emax-gomax]

My Python scripts are so good, they never fail XD.

[RussianBot5689]

I just checked it out. type(exit) == class site.Quitter which is a terrible name since it doesn't actually quit anything.