Fix Python2.4-only bug with automatic skipping of SystemExit

IPython/iplib.py

@@ -6,7 +6,7 b' Requires Python 2.3 or newer.'
 
 This file contains all the classes and helper functions specific to IPython.
 
-$Id: iplib.py 2614 2007-08-13 18:32:38Z vivainio $
+$Id: iplib.py 2631 2007-08-15 07:07:36Z fperez $
 """
 
 #*****************************************************************************
@@ -2486,12 +2486,21 b' want to merge them back into the new files.""" % locals()'
                 self.showsyntaxerror()
                 warn('Failure executing file: <%s>' % fname)
             except SystemExit,status:
-                #print 'STATUS:',status  # dbg
+                # Code that correctly sets the exit status flag to success (0)
+                # shouldn't be bothered with a traceback.  Note that a plain
+                # sys.exit() does NOT set the message to 0 (it's empty) so that
+                # will still get a traceback.  Note that the structure of the
+                # SystemExit exception changed between Python 2.4 and 2.5, so
+                # the checks must be done in a version-dependent way.
+                show = False
+
+                if sys.version_info[:2] > (2,5):
                 if status.message!=0 and not kw['exit_ignore']:
-                    # Code that correctly sets the exit status flag to success
-                    # (0) shouldn't be bothered with a traceback.  Note that a
-                    # plain sys.exit() does NOT set the message to 0 (it's
-                    # empty) so that will still get a traceback.
+                        show = True
+                else:
+                    if status.code and not kw['exit_ignore']:
+                        show = True
+                if show:
                     self.showtraceback()
                     warn('Failure executing file: <%s>' % fname)
             except:

doc/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,10 b''
[phone]  Fernando Perez  <[e-mail]>
+
+	* IPython/iplib.py (safe_execfile): fix the SystemExit
+	auto-suppression code to work in Python2.4 (the internal structure
+	of that exception changed and I'd only tested the code with 2.5).
+	Bug reported by a SciPy attendee.
+
 2007-08-13  Ville Vainio  <[e-mail]>
 
 	* prefilter.py: reverted !c:/bin/foo fix, made % in