Hi all, sorry to spam the list a bit, but what follows is of direct interest to a good number of matplotlib users.
Yesterday we put out here: http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/testing/ a release candidate for IPython 0.7.4, as well as PyReadline (needed by windows users). There is one new feature in this release which is of particular interest to matplotlib users: the ability to hit Ctrl-C to interrupt a long-running script or computation, even when using any of the multithreaded backends for matplotlib (WX, GTK or QT-based). Doing this requires ctypes (part of python 2.5 but not automatically in 2.4), and I had to use an undocumented feature of the Python C API, so this is a bit of a 'black hack'. On the other hand, it is *extremely* useful to be able to stop something you didn't want to run for long without having to completely kill your ipython session. Since I'm not 100% sure this will really work without any glitches, I'd greatly appreciate the testing from any willing participants here. If this feature survives real-world beating, we'll release next week. If the feature remains, I'm likely to change the official version number to 0.8 to indicate a new series with asynchronous exception support in multiple threads. thanks, f ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
