Print an error message and exit.

    This function will call ``sys.exit`` with the given ``status`` and the
    process will terminate.

    Args:
        message (str) : error message to print

        status (int) : the exit status to pass to ``sys.exit``

def die(message, status=1):
    ''' Print an error message and exit.

    This function will call ``sys.exit`` with the given ``status`` and the
    process will terminate.

    Args:
        message (str) : error message to print

        status (int) : the exit status to pass to ``sys.exit``

    '''
    print(message, file=sys.stderr)
    sys.exit(status)