[issue36691] SystemExit & sys.exit : Allow both exit status and message

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[issue36691] SystemExit & sys.exit : Allow both exit status and message

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[issue36691] SystemExit & sys.exit : Allow both exit status and message

Eric V. Smith added the comment: You could add a flag in the exception to tell the default handler where to write the message. It would default to stderr. This would make it possible to catch the exception before it was written out, and customize the behavior. -- nosy: +eric.smith

[issue36691] SystemExit & sys.exit : Allow both exit status and message

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[issue36691] SystemExit & sys.exit : Allow both exit status and message

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: The default handler writes the message of non-integer code to stderr, but in case of '--help', the message should be written to stdout. So this feature is not applicable for it. Are there other examples where this feature can be used? In such cases it is b

[issue36691] SystemExit & sys.exit : Allow both exit status and message

New submission from Thomas Kluyver : The SystemExit exception, and consequently the sys.exit() function, take a single parameter which is either an integer exit status for the process, or a message to print to stderr before exiting - in which case the exit status is implicitly 1. In certain