Message 185621 - Python tracker
I agree that site.py's Quitter exception logic has a flaw as described on the email from python-dev. But I disagree that the problem of IDLE not exiting is due to site.py. Even if you fix site.py (which I did), calling sys.stdin.close() won't close IDLE since PseudoInputFile's close method doesn't call PyShell's close method.