Hi Audrey, hi all,
it's almost a year later and the feature has actually been there since a
while and I forgot to write you about it. In case it's still relevant
for you: You can now interrupt other threads like this:
__pypy__.thread._raise_in_thread(thread_id, ExceptionClass)
Cheers,
CF
On
Hi Audrey,
right, that makes sense. I've opened an issue:
https://foss.heptapod.net/pypy/pypy/-/issues/3757
In case you want to get involved, it's probably not that hard to
implement and I'd be happy to guide you through it. Let me know!
Cheers,
Carl Friedrich
On 31.05.22 08:57, Audrey
Hi! Sorry for the delay, I didn't realize I needed to be subscribed to
the mailing list to participate in conversations.
My use case is that I have a gui application which runs arbitrary
tasks as background threads, and needs to provide a cancel button to
interrupt them. The tasks are often
Hi Audrey,
Welcome! Thanks for your question!
So PyPy has the internal functionality to asynchronous signals at
safepoints. We use it for example to call __del__ methods of collected
objects at safe positions, for signals, and also to implement
_thread.interrupt_main. The mechanism in PyPy is a
