How do I exit a program in a try/except block in Python through a function?

Question

I am making the game Wordle in Python and I am nearing the end. Now, I am trying to end the program whenever the user guesses the word right but whatever I am trying, nothing is working. I tried doing sys.exit(), quit(), SystemExit(1), etc, but still, nothing is working. Could you please help me solve this issue and help me end the code? Thanks.

Here is the area of my code where I need help:

    winRow = [32, 32, 32, 32, 32]
    if colorRow == winRow:
        print("YOU WON!")
        SystemExit(1)


    return board, colorList, colorRow, result


numList = ["FIRST", "SECOND", "THIRD", "FOURTH", "FIFTH", "SIXTH"]
for x in range(len(numList)):
    z = True
    while z == True:
        try:
            guess = input(f"{numList[x]} GUESS  > ").upper()
            guess = list(guess)
            checkRight(guess, word, x+1)
            boardprint()
            z = False
        except:
            boardprint()
            print("Make sure your word is 5 letters")

Here is my full code:

import rich
from rich.text import Text
import random

    
testList = ["PRICE"]
word = random.choice(testList)


board = {
    6 : ["_", "_", "_", "_", "_"],
    5 : ["_", "_", "_", "_", "_"],
    4 : ["_", "_", "_", "_", "_"],
    3 : ["_", "_", "_", "_", "_"],
    2 : ["_", "_", "_", "_", "_"],
    1 : ["_", "_", "_", "_", "_"]
}

colorList = {
    6 : [39, 39, 39, 39, 39],
    5 : [39, 39, 39, 39, 39],
    4 : [39, 39, 39, 39, 39],
    3 : [39, 39, 39, 39, 39],
    2 : [39, 39, 39, 39, 39],
    1 : [39, 39, 39, 39, 39] 
}

def boardprint():
    global board, colorList

    final = []
    for x in range(len(board)):
        spots = [f"\033[{col}m{board[x+1][idx]}\33[0m" for idx, col in enumerate(colorList[x+1])]
        l = ' '.join(spots)
        final.append(f"| {l} |")
    ansi_rich = Text.from_ansi('\n'.join(final))
    rich.print(ansi_rich)

    return colorList



guess = ""

result = "playing"

def checkRight(guess, word, row):
    global board, colorList

    GuessCheckDouble = {i:guess.count(i) for i in guess}
    WordCheckDouble = {i:word.count(i) for i in word}
    result = {key: GuessCheckDouble[key] - WordCheckDouble.get(key, 0) for key in GuessCheckDouble.keys()}
    updateRow = []
    colorRow = []

    for x in range(len(word)):
        if guess[x].upper() == word[x]: # green
            
            letter = guess[x]
            updateRow.append(letter)
            colorRow.append(32)

        elif guess[x].upper() in word and result[guess[x]] == 0: # yellow
            
            letter = guess[x]
            updateRow.append(letter)
            colorRow.append(33)
            
        else: # grey

            letter = guess[x]
            updateRow.append(letter)
            colorRow.append(30)

    

    board.update({row : [updateRow[0], updateRow[1], updateRow[2], updateRow[3], updateRow[4]]})
    colorList.update({row : [colorRow[0], colorRow[1], colorRow[2], colorRow[3], colorRow[4]]})

    winRow = [32, 32, 32, 32, 32]
    if colorRow == winRow:
        print("YOU WON!")
        SystemExit(1)


    return board, colorList, colorRow, result

word = word.upper()
word = list(word)


print("hello! welcome to \033[32;1mWORDLE\033[0m")
print("\tTry to guess a 5-letter word in 6 guesses or less.\n\t\tIf a letter is \033[32mgreen\033[0m, then it is in the right place,\n\t\tIf a letter is \033[33myellow\033[0m, then it is in the wrong place, \n\t\tif a letter is \033[30mgrey\033[0m, then it is the wrong letter.")
print()
boardprint()
print()

numList = ["FIRST", "SECOND", "THIRD", "FOURTH", "FIFTH", "SIXTH"]
for x in range(len(numList)):
    z = True
    while z == True:
        try:
            guess = input(f"{numList[x]} GUESS  > ").upper()
            guess = list(guess)
            checkRight(guess, word, x+1)
            boardprint()
            z = False
        except:
            boardprint()
            print("Make sure your word is 5 letters")
            

Answer 1

System exiting exceptions (KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit, etc) do not inherit from Exception, so don't use a bare except which will catch all exceptions, catch Exception instead so that system exiting exceptions are not caught

try:
    ...
except Exception:
    # Only handles non-system exiting exceptions
    ...