[Tutor] How to interrupt in IDLE

[Danny Yoo]

On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Roman Suzuki wrote:

> Hi, everyone
>
> I'v just started learning Python language. and I am doing "Python Tutorial".
> When I tried following example on  Section 4.5 "IDLE for Windows" freezed.
> # example ----------
> >>> while 1:
>     pass
> # example ----------
>
> I had to push Ctrl+Alt+Del to kill IDLE.. If you know right way to interrupt
> in IDLE, tell me that, please.

Hi Roman,

Yikes!  I would have thought that Ctrl-C would have done it, but
apparently this doesn't work in IDLE when it's busy running the program.
Hmmm... this is bad.  I'll ask on the IDLE-Dev developers list to see if
there's a workaround.