Oh I'm an idiot. Kernel interrupt is already the cancel mechanism. This will likely work to cancel the completion request. And if it crashes IPython I can always submit a PR there to catch the keyboard interrupt and return empty completion results.
Sorry for the dumb idea. On Friday, September 11, 2020 at 5:52:09 PM UTC-7, Rich Chiodo wrote: > > Hi, > > I was hoping to discuss making it possible to 'cancel' a kernel request. > Or at least ask if anybody else has thought of this and why or why not it's > possible. > > I didn't want to make a JEP > <https://github.com/jupyter/enhancement-proposals> just yet as thought > there might already be a discussion around this. > > This is in reference to problems my team is having with auto complete and > IPython: > https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/issues/9596 > > I ran some profiling when the problem occurs and it looks like we're in > the middle of waiting for the completion request to return before we can > execute a cell. > > This might be solved a number of ways: > - Modify Jedi/IPython to support a timeout for completion > - Skip doing autocompletion in VS code from Jupyter > - Provide a way to cancel a kernel request > > The cancel idea sounds the most interesting to me. > > Any feedback would be great. > > Thanks. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Jupyter" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/98f78a21-e439-4538-a05c-cc34f7614319o%40googlegroups.com.
