On Thu, 30 May 2013 16:40:52 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Fri, 31 May 2013 01:56:09 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> You're assuming you can casually hit Ctrl-C to stop an infinite loop, >> meaning that it's trivial. It's not. Not everything lets you do that; >> or possibly halting the process will halt far more than you intended. >> What if you're editing live code in something that's had uninterrupted >> uptime for over a year? > > Then more fool you for editing live code. Ouch! That came out much harsher than it sounded in my head :( Sorry Chris, that wasn't intended as a personal attack against you, just as a comment on the general inadvisability of modifying code on the fly while it is being run. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
