Good spotting.
I was surprised too.
$ python code.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "a3.py", line 6, in <module>
signal.signal(signal.SIGTSTP, signal_handler)
NameError: name 'signal_handler' is not defined
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Senthil Kumaran
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On Monday, June 2, 2014 at 8:48 PM, Senthil wrote:
> Sateesh,
>
> I have a question.
> In your sample code you are registering the method signal_handler prior to
> its definition.
> Does that work?
>
> --SSK.
>
>
>
>
> On Monday, 2 June 2014 6:57 PM, Sateesh Kumar <sateeshpy...@gmail.com
> (mailto:sateeshpy...@gmail.com)> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Rahul Gopan <rahulpce...@gmail.com
> (mailto:rahulpce...@gmail.com)> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > When I run a python script it hangs at random places. Is there any way to
> > identify when the script hangs and to resume it automatically. When I see
> > that it is not responding i do ^Z (Ctrl -Z) to stop and then use fg command
> > to start it again. I want to automate this.
> >
>
> As others have already suggested it is not a good idea to silently ignore
> the errors,
> so you should debug your script to understand where exactly the script
> would hang.
>
> You can get a trace of the script state when you press 'Ctrl+Z' by handling
> the signal and making use of the 'inspect' module.
>
> Consider the below sample code:
>
> % cat signal.py
>
> import signal
> import time
> import inspect
>
> # Register function 'signal_handler' to handle the signal 'Ctrl+Z'
> signal.signal(signal.SIGTSTP, signal_handler)
>
> def signal_handler(signal, frame):
> print "You pressed Ctrl+Z\n";
> frame,filename,line_number,function_name,lines,index =
> inspect.getouterframes(inspect.currentframe())[1]
> print(frame,filename,line_number,function_name,lines,index)
>
>
>
> def signal_check():
> while (1):
> time.sleep(5)
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
> signal_check()
>
>
> When the above script is running, pressing 'Ctrl+Z' would yield below
> output and
> the script would continue its execution.
>
> % python signal.py
> Hello
> ...
> You pressed Ctrl+Z
>
> (<frame object at 0x1a7ae770>, 'signal.py', 16, 'signal_check', ['
> time.sleep(5)\n'], 0)
>
> Hello
> Hello
> ...
>
>
> The output from inspect:
> frame,filename,line_number,function_name,lines,index =
> inspect.getouterframes(inspect.currentframe())[1]
> will give details like name of the function which resulted in call for
> signal handler, line number etc.
>
> Refer to the documentation of 'signal' module for more details on using
> this module for signal handling.
> https://docs.python.org/2/library/signal.html#module-signal
>
> reg,
> sateesh
>
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