[Tutor] keyboard interrupt

[Dave Angel]

On 05/22/2013 09:46 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
>> What do you mean "doesn't do anything" ?  It certainly terminates the loop,
>> which was the intent.  Provided of course that something else isn't trapping
>> the Ctrl-C first.
>
> It doesn't in Windows proper, using Wing 101.

Then Wing is changing the behavior, trapping the Ctrl-C.  Not sure why 
you would call Wing the "proper Windows".

> It does exit in the
> Windows command console.

Of course.

> For some reason I forgot ctrl-C is Copy in
> windows.

Only to programs that have a GUI event loop which happens to trap the 
event.  That's common in Windows, and is required by the CUA standard 
(apparently defunct), but it's not the default behavior of a Windows 
executable.

> I tried Ctrl-X but I was again confusing the old DOS abort
> with Windows Cut. I've been enslaved by the GUI ;')
>
> I'm using Wing 101, which doesn't have a feature set for altering that
> behavior. It's probably in the professional version. If I scrape up
> spare cash I may go for PyCharm or Wing Pro, but I don't need them on
> the low end of the learning curve. I'd just waste time fooling with
> them.
>
> The program does exit in Idle, although Idle throws up a Tk screen
> asking if you want to abort the program, so it's not a clean exit.
>
> Jim
>
>


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DaveA