[Python-ideas] Membership of infinite iterators

[Brendan Barnwell]

On 2017-10-17 07:26, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> 17.10.17 17:06, Nick Coghlan пише:
>> >Keep in mind we're not talking about a regular loop you can break out of
>> >with Ctrl-C here - we're talking about a tight loop inside the
>> >interpreter internals that leads to having to kill the whole host
>> >process just to get out of it.
> And this is the root of the issue. Just let more tight loops be
> interruptible with Ctrl-C, and this will fix the more general issue.

	I was just thinking the same thing.  I think in general it's always bad 
for code to be uninterruptible with Ctrl-C.  If these infinite iterators 
were fixed so they could be interrupted, this containment problem would 
be much less painful.

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