[Pyrex] while loop not detecting ctrl-c

[Andreas Kostyrka]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:17:13PM +1300, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Bryan Weingarten <bryan.weingarten at pobox.com>:
> 
> > i'm not sure i'm understanding what you mean by a  default callback.  i 
> > thought this was what you meant, but it didn't work.
> 
> The default callback probably has to be an interpreted Python
> function, not a Pyrex function. The reason is that it's the
> interpreter loop which checks for the flag set by the ctrl-C handler
> and raises a Python exception.
> 
> You may have to create an auxiliary Python module containing a
> do-nothing function and import that into the Pyrex module.  Not very
> elegant, but it's the best I can think of at the moment without
> delving into the internals of things.
What about a "lambda *args: None" in Pyrex? I mean, that should do the trick in Pyrex too, as Pyrex probably would be forced to generate the lambda object,
right?

Andreas