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Terminating a Python script
Terminating a Python Program

My question is how to exit out in Python main function? I have tried ‘return‘ but it gave the error SyntaxError: 'return' outside function. Can anyone help? Thanks.

if __name__ == '__main__':
  try:
    if condition:
    (I want to exit here) 
    do something
  finally:
    do something

Answer 1

You can use sys.exit() to exit from the middle of the main function.

However, I would recommend not doing any logic there. Instead, put everything in a function, and call that from __main__ – then you can use return as normal.