[IPython-user] Testers requested - 0.7.4.rc1, with async cross-thread exceptions

[Nicolas Pernetty]

On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 00:13:05 -0600, "Fernando Perez"
<fperez.net@gmail.com> wrote :

> one glaring limitation of our multithreaded shells is the unfortunate
> lack of support for Ctrl-C, so you can't interrupt a long computation
> with any of the multithreaded shells.
> 
> I would *greatly* appreciate if others could test current SVN with
> this.  Try hitting Ctrl-C in all kinds of situations, with long
> running code, with matplotlib, etc.

Hello,

I've tested this release on Windows XP and Python 2.5 and here are the
few bugs that I've noticed :

1) There is still a strange bug on the Win32 postinstall script.
Everything seems to be OK but at the end of postinstall script I got
this message :
*** run_installscript: internal error 0xFFFFFFFF ***

2) postinstall script hasn't been updated with the patch I sent you, so
there is no ipython.bat created in the 'Scripts' directory of Python (I
haven't found any other way to make it work with Xemacs on Win32)

3) This line in iplib.py (line 1983) :
line = raw_input_original(prompt).decode(sys.stdin.encoding)
is breaking IPython in Xemacs on Windows XP because there is no
sys.stdin.encoding :
In [1]: import sys
In [2]: print sys.stdin.encoding
None

I suggest to have something like :
if sys.stdin.encoding != None:
  line = raw_input_original(prompt).decode(sys.stdin.encoding)
else:
  line = raw_input_original(prompt)

4) The Ctrl-C works with basic examples on IPython from standard shell
but it somehow breaks on IPython from Xemacs.
The exception is raised, but I couldn't get the prompt back (see log
output at the end of this email).
I can type or hit enter but it doesn't seem to do anything...

Unfortunately I only got a W32 box at works and I won't get back there
until tuesday so I can't be of any help to debug this until tuesday.

Regards,

c:\ipython>"C:\Python25\python.exe" -i  
"C:\Python25\Scripts\ipython" -pylab -colors LightBG 
Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Sep 19 2006, 09:52:17) [MSC v.1310 32 bit
(Intel)]
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 
IPython 0.7.4.rc1 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
?       -> Introduction to IPython's features.
%magic  -> Information about IPython's 'magic' % functions.
help    -> Python's own help system.
object? -> Details about 'object'. ?object also works, ?? prints more.
 
  Welcome to pylab, a matplotlib-based Python environment.
  For more information, type 'help(pylab)'.
 
In [1]: import time
 
In [2]: time.sleep(5)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
---
<type 'exceptions.KeyboardInterrupt'>     Traceback (most recent call
last)
 
C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\IPython\Shell.py in OnTimer(self, event)
    844             def OnTimer(self, event):
    845                 update_tk(self.tk)
--> 846                 self.IP.runcode()  
    847 
    848         class App(self.wx.App):
 
C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\IPython\Shell.py in runcode(self)
    442             if got_lock:
    443                 self.thread_ready.notify()
--> 444                 InteractiveShell.runcode(self,code_to_run)  
    445             else:
    446                 break
 
C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\IPython\iplib.py in runcode(self,
code_obj)
   1925             self.CustomTB(etype,value,tb)
   1926         except:
-> 1927             self.showtraceback()  
   1928         else:
   1929             outflag = 0
 
C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\IPython\iplib.py in showtraceback(self,
exc_tuple, filename, tb_offset)
   1486                 self.CustomTB(etype,value,tb)
   1487             else:
-> 1488  
self.InteractiveTB(etype,value,tb,tb_offset=tb_offset)
   1489                 if self.InteractiveTB.call_pdb and
self.has_readline:
   1490                     # pdb mucks up readline, fix it back
 
C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\IPython\ultraTB.py in __call__(self,
etype, evalue, etb, out, tb_offset)
    869             self.tb_offset = tb_offset
    870         else:
--> 871             print >> out, self.text(etype, evalue, etb)  
    872         self.debugger()
    873 
 
C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\IPython\ultraTB.py in text(self, etype,
value, tb, context, mode)
    876             etype,value,tb = sys.exc_info()
    877         self.tb = tb
--> 878         return  
FormattedTB.text(self,etype,value,tb,context=5,mode=mode)
    879 
    880
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
----
 
C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\IPython\ultraTB.py in text(self, etype,
value, tb, context, mode)
    797         if mode in self.verbose_modes:
    798             # verbose modes need a full traceback
--> 799             return VerboseTB.text(self,etype, value,  
tb,context=5)
    800         else:
    801             # We must check the source cache because otherwise
we can print
 
C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\IPython\ultraTB.py in text(self, etype,
evalue, etb, context)
    429 
    430         # some internal-use functions
--> 431         def text_repr(value):  
    432             """Hopefully pretty robust repr equivalent."""
    433             # this is pretty horrible but should always return
*something*
 
<type 'exceptions.KeyboardInterrupt'>: