Eryk Sun added the comment:
In bpo-29971 it was suggested to split the PyThread lock API in Windows into an
"interruptible lock" API that's based on emulated condition variables and a
"fast lock" API that's based on native condition variables and SRW locks. Maybe
the only API change that's
Eryk Sun added the comment:
> Python 2.7 had totally different code, IIRC.
In 2.7 the wait() method of threading._Condition implements the timeout with a
loop the calls time.sleep() with an increasing delay from 500 microseconds up
to 50 ms, and no more than the remaining time.
> But the
Steve Dower added the comment:
I think you're right about that change touching the right code, but I'm pretty
sure it wasn't working before either. (Python 2.7 had totally different code,
IIRC.)
But the good news is that we should be able to use code similar to what's in
Rebecca Fair added the comment:
Sorry, I didn't realise it wouldn't link to a commit automatically, the commit
is here:
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/7c3e5773954009d65520eb063621cf7724da88e3
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New submission from Rebecca Fair :
I want to be able to Ctrl+C to exit a multiprocessing Pool.map gracefully, and
have made a solution based on this Stack Overflow answer:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11312525/catch-ctrlc-sigint-and-exit-multiprocesses-gracefully-in-python
However,
