text_combined: jeffrey yasskin ahzkvfwpgmailcom fwiw think thread interruptioncancellation deserves pep bunch subtle issues like several languages imitate lot places implementation need change support planning write pep month two someone else gets first ill happy help tue mar 18 2008 747 pm greg ewing wrote adam olsen wrote id tend assume purely functional languages asynchronous interrupts imperative language suspect yet situations thing extremely inconvenient im performing background calculation munges data doesnt touch anything shared quite safe kill point throw away everything working unable outside means sprinkle explicit tests abort flag horrible thing software engineering standpoint many reasons consentingadults environment python dont like useful facility withheld possible misuse greg _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list python3000pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000jyasskin40gmailcom namasté jeffrey yasskin httpjeffreyyasskininfo _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list python3000pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom wed 06 aug 2008 093133 0500 python3000 pythonsafethread project status