New submission from Steven D'Aprano: There are a few operations such as summing or unpacking infinite iterators where the interpreter can become unresponsive and ignore Ctrl-C KeyboardInterrupt. Guido suggests that such places should occasionally check for signals:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2016-February/038426.html ---------- components: Interpreter Core messages: 260189 nosy: steven.daprano priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Occasionally check for Ctrl-C in long-running operations like sum type: behavior versions: Python 3.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26351> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
