Stop and go - two Python(Win) questions

[Steve Holden]

"Martin Bless" <m.bless at gmx.de> wrote in message
news:3c4564ea.10755440 at news.muenster.de...
> [Thomas Heller]:
>
> >A distutils bug. Support for SWIG is rather poor.
> >SWIGging a file <pathname>.i creates a file <pathname>.c
> >overwriting any previous file of this name. So better
> >change another name.
>
> Aha. Ok, I'll try to find a solution.
>
> Which brings up two questions I carry around for a while:
>
> (1) PythonWin: I can't find a way to cancel execution if I was clever
> enough to produce an indefinite loop (ctrl+c, ctrl+z, ctrl+halt, ...
> nothing I tried worked.
>
Well, in this case there's a neat little systray icon that you can
right-mouse-button over. THe two context menu items are "Activate" and
"Break into running code". You want the second one!

regards
 Steve
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