• niq@discuss.tchncs.de
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      For example if you want to set an explicit exit code. Calling python scripts will usually result in an exit code 0 after the script is run. If you want to set a different exit code for example 1 to indicate some error occured you can do that via sys.exit(1).

      Same thing applies to other languages of course.

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      Applications where you aren’t using some sort of framework. Usually MVC or other frameworks would handle this or are designed to continuously run.

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        Perl is funnier, as these are valid ways of exiting with an exception:

        readFile() or die;

        die unless $a > $b;