On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > I'm looking for a way to interrupt a long-running function on a key > press, but without halting the function.
I assume there's a reason for not using Ctrl-C and SIGINT with the signal module? This looks like the classic "sigint handler sets a flag that the main loop polls" structure. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list