embedding: forcing an interpreter to end

[Miki Tebeka]

Hello dan,

> > How about: PyRun_String("from os import _exit;
> > _exit(0)") ?
> 
> Clever!  But, _exit() will terminate my entire
> process, not just the offending interpreter.  And I
> can't use a separate child process on uclinux.
You have a Python port to uClinux?
 
> Any other ideas?
1.
Maybe: PyRun_String("raise SystemExit")?
Which supposed to be less brute.
2.
Is there any signal handler you can use in your C program? Maybe signling
yourself will get the control back to the C program and then you can kill
the interpreter.

Bye.
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