The "loop and a half"

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 2:06 AM, bartc <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:
> On 07/10/2017 15:45, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Admit it, you're just trolling.
>
> FFS, NOW what's wrong?
>
> IF you DO redefine those names, then you DO have to use other means to
> terminate. I happen to call those means 'crashing out', because it's like
> yanking the plug rather than using the on/off switch. Especially on Windows
> where the usual Ctrl C doesn't work, so you resort to Ctrl-Break will which
> actually abort it. Ctrl Z is uncommon.
>
> I suspect it's you trying to deliberately wind ME up.
>
> I'm getting fed up with this thread now.

It's when you call that "crashing out" that people think you're just
trolling. Why on earth would that be a crash? Don't you know of any
other way to perform an orderly shutdown in a Python script? You talk
about Ctrl-C/Ctrl-Break as if it were an orderly shutdown, yet ignore
all of the other methods and call them "crashing".

Is there any surprise that people call you out for that?

ChrisA