[Python-Dev] SIGCHECK() in longobject.c (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Oct 19 00:46:04 CEST 2009

Daniel Stutzbach <daniel stutzbachenterprises.com> writes:

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... ;) )--

Sure, but it's no different than doing, e.g.: list(range(100000000)).sort()

(don't try this, it just made by computer slow down to a crawl and I had to kill -9 the Python interpreter)

The question is whether there is still any reason to special-case long objects and not, say, list.sort() or re.sub().

Regards

Antoine.

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