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dscorbett opened this issue May 7, 2025 · 2 comments
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sys.exit unpacks its argument if it is a 0- or 1-element tuple #133548

dscorbett opened this issue May 7, 2025 · 2 comments
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dscorbett commented May 7, 2025

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The documentation of sys.exit says “The optional argument arg can be an integer giving the exit status (defaulting to zero), or another type of object. [...] If another type of object is passed, None is equivalent to passing zero, and any other object is printed to stderr and results in an exit code of 1.” This is no longer true for 0- and 1-element tuples in Python 3.12 and later. It acts like the argument is unpacked: sys.exit(()) is treated like sys.exit() and sys.exit((x,)) is treated like sys.exit(x).

$ python3.11 -c 'import sys; sys.exit(())'; echo $?
()
1

$ python3.12 -c 'import sys; sys.exit(())'; echo $?
0

$ python3.11 -c 'import sys; sys.exit((2,))'; echo $?
(2,)
1

$ python3.12 -c 'import sys; sys.exit((2,))'; echo $?
2

CPython versions tested on:

3.12, 3.13, CPython main branch

Operating systems tested on:

macOS

@dscorbett dscorbett added the type-bug An unexpected behavior, bug, or error label May 7, 2025
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Can you find the issue that made the change (git blame) and see if the behavior change was intended? If so, the doc should be changed.

@picnixz picnixz added extension-modules C modules in the Modules dir interpreter-core (Objects, Python, Grammar, and Parser dirs) and removed extension-modules C modules in the Modules dir labels May 7, 2025
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This bisects to feec49c (#101607), cc @markshannon

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