New submission from Mark: Consider the following code, typed interactively:
>>> import time >>> time.sleep(1e6) This will sleep for a bit over one and a half weeks. If this was typed in error, you may want to interrupt it. If using the command line, this is easy: just use Ctrl-C. If using IDLE, Ctrl-C has no effect. One could attempt to restart the shell with Ctrl-F6, which seems to work, but in fact the process remains in the background, hung until the timeout expires. There are two obvious workarounds: one is to sleep in a separate thread, so as to avoid blocking the main thread, and the other is to use a loop with smaller sleep increments: for ii in range(1e5): sleep(10) Now it only takes 10 seconds to interrupt a sleep. But these are both clumsy workarounds. They're so clumsy that I think I'm not going to use IDLE for this particular program and just use python -I. Would be nice if this were fixed. ---------- assignee: terry.reedy components: IDLE messages: 290663 nosy: Mark, terry.reedy priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: time.sleep ignores keyboard interrupt in IDLE versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29926> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
