How to close a terminal using Python?

Question

I've been looking around the web and I found no articles saying how to close a terminal using Python code.

This is my code:

if optionInput == "6":
exit()

I want it to close the terminal instead of just ending its process. I've seen other projects have that and I want to do the same. Is there any way to do that? Thanks

This is going to depend on, at minimum, the OS, the terminal emulator, and probably the shell running in the terminal. — Silvio Mayolo, Apr 13 '21 at 02:45
If Python didn't start the terminal, Python should not close the terminal. What if the session contains state from before the Python program ran which the user wants to keep? — tripleee, Apr 13 '21 at 03:02

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 19 '21 at 11:51

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try this

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

answered Apr 19 '21 at 11:51

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