Pythonwin - breaking out of infinite loop

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Thu Jan 29 12:02:28 EST 2004


In article <40193737$0$13350$ed9e5944 at reading.news.pipex.net>,
Graham <gsmith at oxfam.org.uk> wrote:
>
>How do I stop a Python program running in PythinWin?  I would expect to be
>able to use CTR-C or CTRL-break etc.

That should work, but there are some oddball cases where Python won't
check for the signal.  Here's a simple example:

    while 1:
        pass
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