How to Exit Linux terminal using Python script?

Question

import sys

def end():
    foo=raw_input()
    sys.exit()

print 'Press enter to Exit python and Terminal'

end()

When we run the program, we should able to exit the Python Interpreter and Terminal itself. But it only exits python interpreter, not the terminal.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

SIGHUP (hang up) will tell the terminal to exit. The terminal should be your script's parent process, so

import os
import signal
os.kill(os.getppid(), signal.SIGHUP)