python mysteriously halts

[Tim Golden]

Todd wrote:
> I ran a python script last night which connects to a matlab automation
> server via DCOM (using win32com).  I expected to see the results when
> I came in this morning.  But apparently, not long after I left, python
> stopped.  I hit enter in the console, and it started again. 

Symptomatically, at least, this can be caused by someone starting to
select (with the mouse) an area of the screen: the process will pause
until <Enter> is pressed, which copies the area to the clipboard. This
only happens with a console window, but it sounds like that's what
you had running.

TJG