How to Exit in Python

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Exiting in python is fairly straight-forward. You need to import the "sys" library, and then call exit from it.

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import sys
 
sys.exit()

Calling exit with no arguments is a clean exit -- no error code is returned. If you'd like to exit with an error message, simply pass the message as a parameter and exit will automatically exit with an error and print your message.

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import sys
 
sys.exit("This is an example of an error message")

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 June 2010 20:16

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