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On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
That's a good point, although I can't recall the last time I accidently created a painfully large list. I can recall the last time I started a painfully large integer computation.
Being able to stop the interpretter with Control-C instead of kill -9 is a minor convenience, though. I could live without it. (Although I can't speak for everyone, of course)
Daniel Stutzbach <daniel <at> stutzbachenterprises.com> writes:Sure, but it's no different than doing, e.g.:
> I sometimes do million-digits calculations that I want to interrupt using
Control-C.(particularly when I didn't \*intend\* to do a million-digits
calculation... ;) )--
list(range(100000000)).sort()
That's a good point, although I can't recall the last time I accidently created a painfully large list. I can recall the last time I started a painfully large integer computation.
Being able to stop the interpretter with Control-C instead of kill -9 is a minor convenience, though. I could live without it. (Although I can't speak for everyone, of course)
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Daniel Stutzbach, Ph.D.
President, Stutzbach Enterprises, LLC