[New-bugs-announce] [issue26351] Occasionally check for Ctrl-C in long-running operations like sum

[Steven D'Aprano]

New submission from Steven D'Aprano:

There are a few operations such as summing or unpacking infinite iterators where the interpreter can become unresponsive and ignore Ctrl-C KeyboardInterrupt. Guido suggests that such places should occasionally check for signals:

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2016-February/038426.html

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 260189
nosy: steven.daprano
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Occasionally check for Ctrl-C in long-running operations like sum
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.6

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