How to kill Python interpreter from the command line?

[Banibrata Dutta]

Any chance that there is a "catch-all" in the code.
As per PEP8 and I'm sure common knowledge of all the folks programming in
Python for a while -- a
>>>catch:
could just lead to this problem.


On 5/9/08, Floris Bruynooghe <floris.bruynooghe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On May 9, 11:19 am, spectru... at gmail.com wrote:
> > Thanks for the replies.
> >
> > On May 8, 5:50 pm, Jean-Paul Calderone <exar... at divmod.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Ctrl+C often works with Python, but as with any language, it's possible
> > > to write a program which will not respond to it.  You can use Ctrl+\
> > > instead (Ctrl+C sends SIGINT which can be masked or otherwise ignored,
> > > Ctrl+\ sends SIGQUIT which typically isn't)
> >
> > Yes, thank you, this seems to work. :)
> >
> > I did some more testing and found out that the problem seems to be
> > thread-related. If I have a single-threaded program, then Ctrl+C
> > usually works, but if I have threads, it is usually ignored. For
> > instance, the below program does not respond to Ctrl+C (but it does
> > die when issued Ctrl+\):
> >
> > import threading
> >
> > def loop():
> >   while True:
> >     pass
> >
> > threading.Thread(target=loop,args=()).start()
>
> Your thread needs to be daemonised for this work.  Othewise your main
> thread will be waiting for your created thread to finish.  E.g.:
>
> thread = threading.Thread(target=loop)
> thread.setDaemon(True)
> thread.start()
>
> But now it will exit immediately as soon as your main thread has
> nothing to do anymore (which is right after .start() in this case), so
> plug in another infinite loop at the end of this:
>
> while True:
>    time.sleep(10)
>
> And now your threaded app will stop when using C-c.
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