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Author belopolsky
Recipients belopolsky, ethan.furman, mark.dickinson, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka, skrah, terry.reedy
Date 2015-04-27.18:18:41
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Stefan> I've seen academic code written by well-known researchers
Stefan> that used 1 for a successful exit.

Thank you!  What I've seen more than once was exit(True) to indicate success where True is not necessarily a literal, but something like
len(results) > 0.
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