On 26/06/2012 20:02, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 6/26/2012 6:51 AM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: > >> The issue is that sometimes, if you press ctrl-c on Windows, instead >> of raising a KeyboardInterrupt, Python will exit completely. Because >> of this, any program that relies on ctrl-c/KeyboardInterrupt is not >> guaranteed to work on windows. Also, working with the interactive >> interpreter becomes really annoying for those with the habit of >> deleting the whole input line via ctrl-c. > > Idle Shell, 3.3.0a4, Win 7does not seem to have this problem. Still up > after 6000 ^Cs. It is better anyway, in multiple ways, than Command > Prompt. (That does not help batch-mode programs, though.) > > That aside, perhaps the way it handles ^C might help. > > I did get the CP to close four times, each time after a few hundred to > maybe a thousand ^Cs. It seems to require more than just one held down > key press. I suspect the closures happened after the limited line buffer > was filled and it was starting to delete the earliest lines. >
I've just updated the call with as much as I had time for just now. Your point about IDLE made me think; I installed pyreadline and now I can't get it to fail at all. Seems to point even more to myreadline.c. More later TJG _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
