On 17/10/2013 16:36, Bill wrote:
>
> I know, way late to the party...
>
> Did you try Ctrl-Break? In Windows that is usually how you interrupt a
> program...
Take consolation from the fact that your five-month delay in replying
isn't even close to the longest delay I've seen on a Python list.
S
I know, way late to the party...
Did you try Ctrl-Break? In Windows that is usually how you interrupt a
program...
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>> Bad programming advice is bad enough, but putting up bad advice to
>> edit the Windows registry is Really, Really bad.
>
> Did you leave a comment with the correction?
Good point. I wasn't registered on that board but I should go find it.
Not that the mistype in that case could possibly cause a
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
>
> StackOverflow may be good but I just had an unpleasant experience
> wanting to add New .py file to my Windows context menu. The first
> advice I saw was missing a backslash and had me adding the string to
> the wrong key. Thankfully, it didn't
On 26 May 2013 15:33, Marc Tompkins wrote:
> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 6:17 AM, eryksun wrote:
StackOverflow may be good but I just had an unpleasant experience
wanting to add New .py file to my Windows context menu. The first
advice I saw was missing a backslash and had me adding the string to
th
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 6:17 AM, eryksun wrote:
> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 4:34 AM, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
> >
> > So these edits aren't default-deny, but default-accept? Worse and worse.
>
> It shows who made the edit and when they edited it, which links to the
> revision history. When a quest
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 4:34 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> So these edits aren't default-deny, but default-accept? Worse and worse.
It shows who made the edit and when they edited it, which links to the
revision history. When a question is closed it shows who voted to
close it. Even retagging sh
On 26/05/13 17:57, Marc Tompkins wrote:
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
You can edit *other* people's questions and answers??!??!??
What. The. Hell.
The idea is to build an authoritative information resource (in particular,
the goal is that the accepted answer to any
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
You can edit *other* people's questions and answers??!??!??
>
> What. The. Hell.
The idea is to build an authoritative information resource (in particular,
the goal is that the accepted answer to any given question will become the
primary r
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> You can edit *other* people's questions and answers??!??!??
>
> What. The. Hell.
This should be done sparingly for answers. But it's very common for
questions since inexperienced users almost always get the markdown
wrong.
_
On 25 May 2013 04:19, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> You can edit *other* people's questions and answers??!??!??
>
> What. The. Hell.
Yes; I think that the idea is that it allows people to fix spelling
errors and/or reference mistakes, or maybe add things to clarify
something that the answer glossed ov
On 25/05/13 01:11, Marc Tompkins wrote:
I love, love, love StackOverflow (and the whole StackExchange ecosystem),
but it's unfortunately susceptible to being gamed. Anyone can edit a
question (or an answer), and if the edit is allowed to stand the editor
gets 2 points.
You can edit *other* p
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On 24/05/13 06:37, Jim Mooney wrote:
>
>> Apparently Wing isn't as savvy as IDLE when it comes to communicating
>>> with the subprocess. I've only searched for about a minute, but
>>> apparently the way this works in Wing is to "Restart She
On 24/05/13 06:37, Jim Mooney wrote:
Apparently Wing isn't as savvy as IDLE when it comes to communicating
with the subprocess. I've only searched for about a minute, but
apparently the way this works in Wing is to "Restart Shell":
http://stackoverflow.com/a/10360503/205580
http://www.wingware.c
> Apparently Wing isn't as savvy as IDLE when it comes to communicating
> with the subprocess. I've only searched for about a minute, but
> apparently the way this works in Wing is to "Restart Shell":
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/a/10360503/205580
> http://www.wingware.com/doc/debug/interactive-pyt
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
> On 05/22/2013 04:11 PM, Jerry Hill wrote:
>
>> The KeyboardInterrupt ​exception is raised when someone presses Ctrl-C.
>> If
>> you catch it, and ignore it (which is what your code above is doing), then
>> pressing Ctrl-C doesn't do anything.
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
> On 22 May 2013 15:05, eryksun wrote:
>> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
>>>
>>> Figured it out. Ctrl-C only works in the Windows Command window, not
>>> in an editor.
>>
>> Which IDE?
>
> Wing. But not being able to abort ou
On 05/22/2013 09:46 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
What do you mean "doesn't do anything" ? It certainly terminates the loop,
which was the intent. Provided of course that something else isn't trapping
the Ctrl-C first.
It doesn't in Windows proper, using Wing 101.
Then Wing is changing the behavior
> What do you mean "doesn't do anything" ? It certainly terminates the loop,
> which was the intent. Provided of course that something else isn't trapping
> the Ctrl-C first.
It doesn't in Windows proper, using Wing 101. It does exit in the
Windows command console. For some reason I forgot ctrl-
On 05/22/2013 04:11 PM, Jerry Hill wrote:
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
I made a simple ear frequency-tester, but I don't want it to go on
forever, so I tried stopping it when I pressed a key, as below, but
that doesn't work. I did check out keyboard interrupts but they se
On 22 May 2013 15:05, eryksun wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
>>
>> Figured it out. Ctrl-C only works in the Windows Command window, not
>> in an editor.
>
> Which IDE?
Wing. But not being able to abort out of a Windows program is a
feature. You don't want to lose sev
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
>
> Figured it out. Ctrl-C only works in the Windows Command window, not
> in an editor.
Which IDE?
In IDLE, your code runs in the main thread of a subprocess (unless
IDLE is started with the -n option). A second thread ("SockThread") is
started
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
> On 22 May 2013 13:24, Jim Mooney wrote:
> >> I've not used it myself, but I believe the KeyboadInterrupt is only
> >> generated by one _specific_ keypress. You mentioned that you pressed a
> key
> >> - did you try Control-C?
> >
> > Actually,
On 22 May 2013 13:24, Jim Mooney wrote:
>> I've not used it myself, but I believe the KeyboadInterrupt is only
>> generated by one _specific_ keypress. You mentioned that you pressed a key
>> - did you try Control-C?
>
> Actually, I did, using Win 7 - and I put exit() in place of pass. I
> tried
> I've not used it myself, but I believe the KeyboadInterrupt is only
> generated by one _specific_ keypress. You mentioned that you pressed a key
> - did you try Control-C?
Actually, I did, using Win 7 - and I put exit() in place of pass. I
tried ctrl-c, ctrl-x, esc, and del. Windows doesn't see
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
> I made a simple ear frequency-tester, but I don't want it to go on
> forever, so I tried stopping it when I pressed a key, as below, but
> that doesn't work. I did check out keyboard interrupts but they seem
> unnecessarily complex just to stop
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Jim Mooney wrote:
> I made a simple ear frequency-tester, but I don't want it to go on
> forever, so I tried stopping it when I pressed a key, as below, but
> that doesn't work. I did check out keyboard interrupts but they seem
> unnecessarily complex just to sto
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