Ctrl-D shortcut works to terminate session in Python 2 on Windows, and doesn't work with Python 3.

It never worked for me.
Are you using a custom shell or cygwin or something?

Ctrl-D has never work for me on Windows either.

It doesn't work on Python 2.x either as delivered. Usually means you 
have an external readline module installed.

Well, it appears that installed IPython brought pyreadline, but I execute it in standard Python shell.

I'd vote for this feature by default. Is that possible without readline?

Here is the output of "py -v".

The Windows (and before it MS-DOS) EOF character is Ctrl-Z. Try that.

Depending on the toolset you use, it might use Ctrl-D as EOF. Cygwin's python uses Ctrl-D.

It would be nice if Python supported some cross-platform standard for user interfaces. It is rather annoying to use Ctrl-Z for Python in local window and Ctrl-D for Python in remote console session (which is *nix of course).

It becomes even more annoying, because Ctrl-Z in *nix session sends Python process to background.

It's trying to be consistent on whatever platform it's on. I'd rather python.exe match all other text-based .exe's on Windows. We can't have it both ways.

But I agree it's a hassle. Cross-platform is a problem that Cygwin is trying to solve, so I suggest you use it. I usually use the Cygwin python for this reason.

I'm unable to find the previous issue, but you asked for this in the past. Ctrl-Z and Ctrl-D simply have different meanings on the different platforms, outside of what Python does. We already can't make Ctrl-Z on Windows do what it does on Linux, and Ctrl-D is not natural to Windows users.

I'm at best +0.25, but I don't have a problem with Ctrl-D exiting on 
Windows, as it doesn't do anything else!

The thing is, though, that this is all handled within 
myreadline.c:my_fgets which is a call into the system fgets which errors 
out with Ctrl-Z but returns Ctrl-D. Which means that the two would 
behave differently even if we special-cased Ctrl-D.

(Sorry: was that explanation a bit involved?)

[Brain Curtin]
> Ctrl-Z and Ctrl-D simply have different meanings 
> on the different platforms, outside of what Python does.
> We already can't make Ctrl-Z on Windows do what it does
> on Linux, and Ctrl-D is not natural to Windows users.

I concur.

It would be a mistake to violate the O/S standards and norms.
I recommend this issue be closed.

Closing as rejected.