Stop execution of a script called with execfile

Question

Is it possible to break the execution of a Python script called with the execfile function without using an if/else statement? I\'ve tried exit(), but it doesn\'t a

Answer 1

What's wrong with plain old exception handling?

scriptexit.py

class ScriptExit( Exception ): pass

main.py

from scriptexit import ScriptExit
print "Main Starting"
try:
    execfile( "script.py" )
except ScriptExit:
    pass
print "This should print"

script.py

from scriptexit import ScriptExit
print "Script starting"
a = False

if a == False:
    # Sanity checks. Script should break here
    raise ScriptExit( "A Good Reason" )

# I'd prefer not to put an "else" here and have to indent the rest of the code
print "this should not print"
# lots of lines below