[IPython-user] KeyboardInterrupt ignored until flush is complete!

[Danny Jacobs]

Hello Everyone,

My ipython usage experience is almost perfect and I am close to
achieving research nirvana but lately I have been having a strange
issue that really affects the workflow.  After working for a little
while, doing plotting and numpy stuff the keyboard interrupt (^c) at
the command line (eg to cancel a half-written command) stops working
and responds with

KeyboardInterrupt ignored until flush is complete!

before continuing on to (or attempt to) run whatever is on the command
line.  A google search for this error only brings up svn commits to
ipython from a couple years ago. As far as I can tell this has to do
with the pylab threading environment and perhaps some unfinished
thread process.  Is there a way to clear this (by giving it the flush
it desires) besides restarting the interpreter?  I haven't been able
to pin down when exactly interrupts stop working but I will keep
trying. Its definitely after doing some pylab plotting.

My basic science command line is:
ipython -pylab -p sh

IPython 0.10   [on Py 2.5.1]
matplotlib 0.99.1.1
OS X (10.5)


Thanks,
~Danny

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Danny Jacobs

Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
University of Pennsylvania
209 South 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6396
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Office:         Rittenhouse Lab - 1n2a
Phone:          (215) 280-7357
Fax:            (215) 898-2010
Homepage:     http://dannycjacobs.googlepages.com

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Danny Jacobs

Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
University of Pennsylvania
209 South 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6396
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Office:		Rittenhouse Lab - 1n2a
Phone:		(215) 280-7357
Fax:		(215) 898-2010
Homepage:     http://dannycjacobs.googlepages.com