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Author belopolsky
Recipients belopolsky, ethan.furman, gdr@garethrees.org, mark.dickinson, refi64, serhiy.storchaka, terry.reedy
Date 2015-04-23.22:31:52
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Message-id <1429828312.6.0.848079947333.issue14376@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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"errors should not pass silently"

The "fix" makes the problem worse.

Why would anyone want to pass a long integer to exit?

I bet the user who discovered this problem had something like 0L or 1L coming from a lazily written C extension.
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2015-04-23 22:31:52belopolskysetrecipients: + belopolsky, terry.reedy, mark.dickinson, ethan.furman, gdr@garethrees.org, serhiy.storchaka, refi64
2015-04-23 22:31:52belopolskysetmessageid: <1429828312.6.0.848079947333.issue14376@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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