In my situation, there is a device with keyboard that
allows some user input. In the same time, the device
is connected to a standard PC, and there may be some
communication there.
The lengthy_function() resides and executes in the
device, and so is cancel().
Lengthy_function() is pretty linear:
Note, this only works in Unix systems:
import os, signal
def long_process():
while True: print "I'm messing with your terminal ! ",
def short_process(long_process_id):
raw_input('Press [Enter] to kill the bad process')
os.kill(long_process_id, signal.SIGKILL)
pr
Sorin Schwimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For instance, lenghty_function() executes, when an
> external event triggers cancel(), which is supposed to
> abruptly stop lengthy_function(), reset some variables
> and exit immediately.
>
def lenghty_function(some, arguments, abort=lambda: False):
If you are talking about events and all that, I suppose you are using
(or should be using) threads.
Why don't try running the length_function as a Thread that on every
loop checks a semaphore and if the condition is met, exits itself?
Kinda like this:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/
> For instance, lenghty_function() executes, when an
> external event triggers cancel(), which is supposed to
> abruptly stop lengthy_function(), reset some variables
> and exit immediately.
I would set a variable someplace (perhaps globally) that gets tested in
lengthy_function()'s loop and issues
Hi All,
We all know that a function can launch the execution
of another function. How can a function stop the
execution of another function?
For instance, lenghty_function() executes, when an
external event triggers cancel(), which is supposed to
abruptly stop lengthy_function(), reset some varia
