justexit.py

>>> exit
Use exit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit

Do you get this often? I get this about once a day. It's a habit from Shell and Ruby that I just can't break. With this tool, you can call exit from your Python console and it will actually exit 🎉

Installation

First, download justexit.py somewhere. Then, wherever you define environment variables (e.g. .bashrc), define the PYTHONSTARTUP variable to point to the path of justexit.py. For example:

# .bashrc
export PYTHONSTARTUP="$HOME/justexit.py"

Then, next time you're in an interactive Python console, you can just type exit and it will actually exit.

>>> exit