On 18 October 2017 at 10:56, Koos Zevenhoven <k7ho...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm unable to reproduce the "uninterruptible with Ctrl-C" problem with > infinite iterators. At least itertools doesn't seem to have it: > >>>> import itertools >>>> for i in itertools.count(): > ... pass > ... > ^CTraceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > KeyboardInterrupt
That's not the issue here, as the CPython interpreter implements this with multiple opcodes, and checks between opcodes for Ctrl-C. The demonstration is: >>> import itertools >>> 'x' in itertools.count() ... only way to break out is to kill the process. Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
