On 29 August 2011 04:08, Russ P. <russ.paie...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Aug 28, 7:51 pm, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Russ P. <russ.paie...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Aug 28, 6:52 pm, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: >> >> You could look at the return value of os.system, which may tell you the >> >> exit status of the process. >> >> > Thanks for the suggestion. Yeah, I guess I could do that, but it seems >> > that there should be a simpler way to just kill the "whole enchilada." >> > Hitting Control-C over and over is a bit like whacking moles. >> >> I believe the idea of this suggestion is for the outer script to >> notice that the inner script terminated via Ctrl-C, and would then >> immediately choose to terminate itself - thus avoiding the >> whack-a-mole effect. >> >> ChrisA > > Yes, but if I am not mistaken, that will require me to put a line or > two after each os.system call. That's almost like whack-a-mole at the > code level rather than the Control-C level. OK, not a huge deal for > one script, but I was hoping for something simpler. I was hoping I > could put one line at the top of the script and be done with it.
Write a function! That's what they're for after all :) -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list