Crashing IDLE

[David LeBlanc]

"NOP" at the assembly language level does all those things! Events and
interrupts are generally sensed at instruction/statement boundaries, and
"pass" would (or should!) count as such. Methinks at a higher level of
abstraction (but not really), the pcode interpreter loop should be doing
this too.

David LeBlanc
Seattle, WA USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gustavo Cordova [mailto:gcordova at hebmex.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 6:27
> To: David LeBlanc
> Cc: Python List
> Subject: RE: Crashing IDLE
>
>
> >
> > I would consider that a bug - "pass" should be checking for
> > ctrl-c and other
> > events imo. It sure strikes me as a point for relinquishing control.
> >
> > David LeBlanc
> > Seattle, WA USA
> >
>
> But "pass" is a NOP, which is exactly nothing, which
> means it must do nothing. If you give it the semantics
> of checking for KeyboardInterrupt, or SIGHUP, or yielding
> control to another thread, or ... etc, then it's no longer
> a NOP, so it shouldn't be "pass", but another keyword...
>
> "sleep" perhaps?
>
> or "yield" maybe? Naa, that's for generators.
>
> Something akin to "yield", but not "yield".
>
> -gustavo