Re: [sage-support] How to cancel a pending alarm() ? (Why did you kill alarm(0)?)

2014-01-27 Thread John H Palmieri
On Monday, January 27, 2014 10:00:38 PM UTC-8, Georgi Guninski wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:17:50AM -0800, John H Palmieri wrote: > > > > First, please try to be more polite. > > > > Dear sir or madam, > > Observe that in sage 5.12 there is no cancel_alarm(). > Yes, there is, defi

Re: [sage-support] How to cancel a pending alarm() ? (Why did you kill alarm(0)?)

2014-01-27 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:17:50AM -0800, John H Palmieri wrote: > > First, please try to be more polite. > Dear sir or madam, Observe that in sage 5.12 there is no cancel_alarm(). > Second, the old alarm code happened to work the way you wanted, but it > wasn't documented that way, and it's

Re: [sage-support] How to cancel a pending alarm() ? (Why did you kill alarm(0)?)

2014-01-27 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2014-01-27 18:35, Georgi Guninski wrote: On linux: $man alarm If seconds is zero, no new alarm() is scheduled. In any event any previously set alarm() is canceled. Linux/Unix alarm() is not Sage alarm()... If you want the direct system call, use the Python interface signal.alarm() instead

Re: [sage-support] How to cancel a pending alarm() ? (Why did you kill alarm(0)?)

2014-01-27 Thread John H Palmieri
On Monday, January 27, 2014 9:35:55 AM UTC-8, Georgi Guninski wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 06:19:34PM +0100, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > On 2014-01-27 15:13, Georgi Guninski wrote: > > >On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 03:07:00PM +0100, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > >>On 2014-01-27 14:35, Jeroen Demeye

Re: [sage-support] How to cancel a pending alarm() ? (Why did you kill alarm(0)?)

2014-01-27 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 06:19:34PM +0100, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > On 2014-01-27 15:13, Georgi Guninski wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 03:07:00PM +0100, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > >>On 2014-01-27 14:35, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > >>>Use cancel_alarm(). I agree this should be documented in alarm(). > >>

Re: [sage-support] How to cancel a pending alarm() ? (Why did you kill alarm(0)?)

2014-01-27 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2014-01-27 15:13, Georgi Guninski wrote: On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 03:07:00PM +0100, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: On 2014-01-27 14:35, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: Use cancel_alarm(). I agree this should be documented in alarm(). This is now http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/15743 and needs review. May I

Re: [sage-support] How to cancel a pending alarm() ? (Why did you kill alarm(0)?)

2014-01-27 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 03:07:00PM +0100, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > On 2014-01-27 14:35, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > >Use cancel_alarm(). I agree this should be documented in alarm(). > > This is now http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/15743 and needs review. > May I ask you to allow alarm(0) again since o

Re: [sage-support] How to cancel a pending alarm() ? (Why did you kill alarm(0)?)

2014-01-27 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2014-01-27 14:35, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: Use cancel_alarm(). I agree this should be documented in alarm(). This is now http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/15743 and needs review. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe fr

Re: [sage-support] How to cancel a pending alarm() ? (Why did you kill alarm(0)?)

2014-01-27 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 02:35:55PM +0100, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > On 2014-01-27 10:57, Georgi Guninski wrote: > >How to cancel a pending alarm()? > Use cancel_alarm(). I agree this should be documented in alarm(). > Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gr

Re: [sage-support] How to cancel a pending alarm() ? (Why did you kill alarm(0)?)

2014-01-27 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2014-01-27 10:57, Georgi Guninski wrote: How to cancel a pending alarm()? Use cancel_alarm(). I agree this should be documented in alarm(). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving em

[sage-support] How to cancel a pending alarm() ? (Why did you kill alarm(0)?)

2014-01-27 Thread Georgi Guninski
I am running code in a loop and certain function might take long or short time. I don't want to wait long and want to continue with the fast cases. Up to sage 5.12 I used: alarm(5) try: F=mightbelong(n) alarm(0) #to not fire later except Key