It would be similar to Perl's die() commmand. But no, in Python the argument is the error status of your script.
You'd have to do something like
def exitnow(arg):
print arg
#maybe sys has not been imported
import sys
sys.exit(1)
Hugo
Ertl, John wrote:
> Matthew,
>
> Not sure if ipython is different but have you tried sys.exit("stoping now")
>
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