<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Antoine Pitrou <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:solipsis@pitrou.net">solipsis@pitrou.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Daniel Stutzbach <daniel <at> <a href="http://stutzbachenterprises.com" target="_blank">stutzbachenterprises.com</a>> writes:<br>
> I sometimes do million-digits calculations that I want to interrupt using<br>
Control-C.(particularly when I didn't *intend* to do a million-digits<br>
calculation... ;) )--<br>
<br>
</div>Sure, but it's no different than doing, e.g.:<br>
list(range(100000000)).sort()<br></blockquote><div><br>That's a good point, although I can't recall the last time I accidently created a painfully large list. I can recall the last time I started a painfully large integer computation.<br>
<br>Being able to stop the interpretter with Control-C instead of kill -9 is a minor convenience, though. I could live without it. (Although I can't speak for everyone, of course)<br></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 0pt;">
--<br>
Daniel Stutzbach, Ph.D.<br>
President, <a href="http://stutzbachenterprises.com">Stutzbach Enterprises, LLC</a>
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