<div class="gmail_quote">On 3 March 2012 20:14, Stefan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shmueller2@gmail.com">shmueller2@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div id=":10w">I have built a python extension that wraps a C library. When I call a<br>
function from this library from the qtconsole, which doesn't return within 3<br>
seconds, this triggers the heartbeat sensor:</div></blockquote></div><br>What version of IPython are you using? I have a feeling this was fixed recently - the heartbeat responder should now run in a separate ZMQ context, so it doesn't get blocked by long-running library calls.<br>
<br>Thomas<br>