Interrupt Python C API

[Tim Roberts]

googler.1.webmaster at spamgourmet.com wrote:
>
>I just have a design problem and don't know how to solve it. I call a
>function which
>executes a simple "PyRun_String(...)" command.
>
>imagine the script while 1: pass is executed so the app would hang. Is
>there any chance to break out this PyRun_String-function?

How would you know that it was an infinite loop, rather than just a
long-running script?  Alan Turing taught us that you can't tell whether an
arbitrary script will terminate.
-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.