<div dir="ltr">The only way to forcibly end it is to run it in another thread and use Thread.Abort[1]. All of the usual caveats around Thread.Abort apply, and your atexit may or may not be called.<div><br></div><div>The Shutdown method is a bit misleading; it does some cleanup but doesn't actually *stop* the current engine. There really isn't any way to do that, and any implementation would probably be the moral equivalent of Thread.Abort anyway.</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Jeff</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ty8d3wta.aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ty8d3wta.aspx</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Andrew Stephens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Andrew.Stephens@nu-ins.com" target="_blank">Andrew.Stephens@nu-ins.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Let’s say I run the following simple script (which also contains an “atexit” func, as I might want to perform some cleanup when the script terminates):-<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.35pt;background:#eeeeee;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:darkblue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">import</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;padding:0cm;border:none windowtext 1.0pt"> atexit<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.35pt;background:#eeeeee;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:darkblue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">import</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;padding:0cm;border:none windowtext 1.0pt"> time<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.35pt;background:#eeeeee;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:darkblue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">import</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;padding:0cm;border:none windowtext 1.0pt"> sys<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.35pt;background:#eeeeee;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;padding:0cm;border:none windowtext 1.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.35pt;background:#eeeeee;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:maroon;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">@atexit</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;padding:0cm;border:none windowtext 1.0pt">.register<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.35pt;background:#eeeeee;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:darkblue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">def</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;padding:0cm;border:none windowtext 1.0pt"> cleanup():<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.35pt;background:#eeeeee;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;padding:0cm;border:none windowtext 1.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:darkblue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">print</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;padding:0cm;border:none windowtext 1.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:maroon;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">'doing cleanup/termination code'</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;padding:0cm;border:none windowtext 1.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.35pt;background:#eeeeee;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;padding:0cm;border:none windowtext 1.0pt"> sys.exit()<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.35pt;background:#eeeeee;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;padding:0cm;border:none windowtext 1.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.35pt;background:#eeeeee;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:darkblue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">for</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;padding:0cm;border:none windowtext 1.0pt"> i </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:darkblue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">in</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;padding:0cm;border:none windowtext 1.0pt"> range(</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:maroon;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">100</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;padding:0cm;border:none windowtext 1.0pt">):<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.35pt;background:#eeeeee;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;padding:0cm;border:none windowtext 1.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:darkblue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">print</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;padding:0cm;border:none windowtext 1.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:maroon;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">'doing something'</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;padding:0cm;border:none windowtext 1.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.35pt;background:#eeeeee;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;padding:0cm;border:none windowtext 1.0pt"> time.sleep(</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:maroon;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">1</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;padding:0cm;border:none windowtext 1.0pt">)</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">If I call “_engine.Runtime.Shutdown()” in my C# code, it results in the atexit func getting called and raising a SysExitException in the calling C# code (due to the line “sys.exit()”), but the “for” loop still continues to run to completion.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What am I missing? Is it possible to forcibly terminate a running script with IronPython?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><p></p>
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