Question

Usually I can interrupt stuff with Ctrl+C, but sometimes when I’m using threads it doesn’t work – example below.

Python 2.7.1+ (r271:86832, Apr 11 2011, 18:13:53) 
[GCC 4.5.2] on linux2
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>>> import time
>>> time.sleep(100)
^CTraceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
K    eyboardInterrupt
>>> import Queue
>>> q = Queue.Queue(maxsize=3)
>>> q.put(0)
>>> q.put(1)
>>> q.put(2)
>>> q.put(3)
^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C

^C^C^C

^C^C
^C
@*#()#@#@$!!!!!

edit: Is there a way to get back to the interpreter? Solutions so far kill python completely and your existing namespace ..

Answer 1

You can kill the Python interpreter with Ctrl+\.

This will send a SIGQUIT instead of SIGINT.