Any chance that there is a "catch-all" in the code. As per PEP8 and I'm sure common knowledge of all the folks programming in Python for a while -- a >>>catch: could just lead to this problem.
On 5/9/08, Floris Bruynooghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 9, 11:19 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks for the replies. > > > > On May 8, 5:50 pm, Jean-Paul Calderone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Ctrl+C often works with Python, but as with any language, it's possible > > > to write a program which will not respond to it. You can use Ctrl+\ > > > instead (Ctrl+C sends SIGINT which can be masked or otherwise ignored, > > > Ctrl+\ sends SIGQUIT which typically isn't) > > > > Yes, thank you, this seems to work. :) > > > > I did some more testing and found out that the problem seems to be > > thread-related. If I have a single-threaded program, then Ctrl+C > > usually works, but if I have threads, it is usually ignored. For > > instance, the below program does not respond to Ctrl+C (but it does > > die when issued Ctrl+\): > > > > import threading > > > > def loop(): > > while True: > > pass > > > > threading.Thread(target=loop,args=()).start() > > Your thread needs to be daemonised for this work. Othewise your main > thread will be waiting for your created thread to finish. E.g.: > > thread = threading.Thread(target=loop) > thread.setDaemon(True) > thread.start() > > But now it will exit immediately as soon as your main thread has > nothing to do anymore (which is right after .start() in this case), so > plug in another infinite loop at the end of this: > > while True: > time.sleep(10) > > And now your threaded app will stop when using C-c. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- regards, Banibrata http://www.linkedin.com/in/bdutta http://octapod.wordpress.com
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