Is there a way to interrupt Python?

[Michael Hudson]

Alex Farber <farber at cpan.org> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> is there a way to interrupt Python when it is executing
> PyEval_EValCode() or PyRun_*() in an embedding application?
> 
> I would like to be able to stop it by pressing CTRL-C. Maybe 
> there is a flag or some thread ref. which I could kill somehow?

Getting a SIGINT sent to the process *should* work, ie. pressing
ctrl-C should work.

You haven't got any 

try:
   ...
except:
   ...

anywhere have you?  They would catch the KeyboardInterrupt exceptions
that get raised when the interpreter gets a SIGINT.

Cheers,
M.

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