[Python-ideas] Membership of infinite iterators

[Stephan Houben]

Hi all,

FWIW, I just tried the list(count()) experiment on my phone (Termux Python
interpreter under Android).

Python 3.6.2 (default, Sep 16 2017, 23:55:07)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Android Clang 5.0.300080 ] on linux
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>>> import itertools
>>> list(itertools.count())
Killed

Interestingly even the Termux app stays alive and otherwise the phone
remains responsive and doesn't get hot. I am now sending this mail from
that very phone.

So this issue is not an issue on the world's most popular OS 😁

Stephan







Op 18 okt. 2017 08:46 schreef "Brendan Barnwell" <brenbarn at brenbarn.net>:

> 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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> Brendan Barnwell
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