diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst
index b447e4253a8561..52482b82a97166 100644
--- a/Doc/library/sys.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst
@@ -2409,6 +2409,26 @@ always available. Unless explicitly noted otherwise, all variables are read-only
    .. versionadded:: 3.2
 
 
+.. data:: EXIT_SUCCESS
+
+    An int you can use to indicate your program ended gracefully.
+
+    .. code-block:: python
+
+        sys.exit(sys.EXIT_SUCCESS)
+
+    .. versionadded:: 3.16
+
+.. data:: EXIT_FAILURE
+
+    An int you can use to indicate your program encountered an error.
+
+    .. code-block:: python
+
+        sys.exit(sys.EXIT_FAILURE)
+
+    .. versionadded:: 3.16
+
 .. rubric:: Citations
 
 .. [C99] ISO/IEC 9899:1999.  "Programming languages -- C."  A public draft of this standard is available at https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1256.pdf\ .
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_sys.py b/Lib/test/test_sys.py
index c74ca05ca66c9c..42e4a9ef71d3a9 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_sys.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_sys.py
@@ -265,6 +265,17 @@ def test_exit(self):
         self.assertEqual(out, b'')
         self.assertEqual(err, b'')
 
+        # test EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE constants
+        self.assertNotEqual(sys.EXIT_SUCCESS, sys.EXIT_FAILURE)
+        rc, out, err = assert_python_ok('-c', 'import sys; sys.exit(sys.EXIT_SUCCESS)')
+        self.assertEqual(rc, sys.EXIT_SUCCESS)
+        self.assertEqual(out, b'')
+        self.assertEqual(err, b'')
+        rc, out, err = assert_python_failure('-c', 'import sys; sys.exit(sys.EXIT_FAILURE)')
+        self.assertEqual(rc, sys.EXIT_FAILURE)
+        self.assertEqual(out, b'')
+        self.assertEqual(err, b'')
+
         def check_exit_message(code, expected, **env_vars):
             rc, out, err = assert_python_failure('-c', code, **env_vars)
             self.assertEqual(rc, 1)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-07-14-12-40-19.bpo-24053.jVpLIJ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-07-14-12-40-19.bpo-24053.jVpLIJ.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..3dd3e44d721078
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-07-14-12-40-19.bpo-24053.jVpLIJ.rst	
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Add EXIT_FAILURE and EXIT_SUCCESS in the sys module.
diff --git a/Python/sysmodule.c b/Python/sysmodule.c
index afc90d9bf5d7dd..f61ab0c7baceda 100644
--- a/Python/sysmodule.c
+++ b/Python/sysmodule.c
@@ -4329,6 +4329,9 @@ _PySys_Create(PyThreadState *tstate, PyObject **sysmod_p)
     PyUnstable_Module_SetGIL(sysmod, Py_MOD_GIL_NOT_USED);
 #endif
 
+    PyModule_AddIntMacro(sysmod, EXIT_SUCCESS);
+    PyModule_AddIntMacro(sysmod, EXIT_FAILURE);
+
     PyObject *sysdict = PyModule_GetDict(sysmod);
     if (sysdict == NULL) {
         goto error;