IDLE traceback on sys.exit()

[Dave Harris]

Something to think about...I'm not sure if this is a problem for anyone.

IDLE currently issues a traceback when running a program which contains sys.exit(). For example, the program:

if __name__ == "__main__":
sys.exit(False)

shows the following in the IDLE shell window:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\rascal\dev\pylearn\odbchelpertest.py", line 8, in -toplevel-
sys.exit(False)
SystemExit: False

If that's the way it's supposed to work, fine.

But unittest wraps up the runTests() function with the line:

sys.exit(not result.wasSuccessful())

So, I always get a traceback whenever I run a test program in IDLE. (The command-line invocation works silently, which I would expect.)

My resolution is simple: I won't use IDLE to exercise my unit tests.

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