[NoGravitas]

Well, the __repr__ method on the 'exit' object is getting called. So that method could actually call sys.exit() and cause repl to exit. But it would be very rude and strange behaviour for calling a __repr__ method to exit the interpreter, or, indeed, to do anything other than return a string representation of the object.

[hyperpape]

What someone more clever than me ought to do is write up a huge investigation of an obscure bug caused by exit.__repr__() calling sys.exit(), and then only at the end comment that it's not real, but could've been if Python went down this road.

[telotortium]

Why? quit and exit are imported exclusively at the REPL: https://docs.python.org/3/library/constants.html?highlight=e.... Would it really be any worse than automatically assigning the result of the last expression to _?

[sanderjd]

Point well made.

[fleitz]

And quit calling exit isn't weird?