On 2017-10-08, eryk sun <eryk...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 10:12 AM, Steve D'Aprano ><steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >> On Sun, 8 Oct 2017 02:06 am, bartc wrote: >> >>> Especially on >>> Windows where the usual Ctrl C doesn't work, so you resort to Ctrl-Break >>> will which actually abort it. Ctrl Z is uncommon. >> >> Thousands of Python programmers on Windows successfully learned to use Ctrl-Z >> ENTER back in the days of Python 1.5, before quit/exit were added as a >> convenience for beginners, and many of them probably still use it. > > Using Ctrl+Z (0x1A) isn't specific to Python. The Windows CRT's > text-mode I/O inherits this from MS-DOS, which took it from CP/M.
Which took it from RSX-11. Or probably more specifically from FILES-11. I woldn't be surprised if the enineers at DEC got it from somewhere else before that. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
