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inputhook: disable CTRL+C when a hook is active....
inputhook: disable CTRL+C when a hook is active. On systems with 'readline', it's very likely to intercept a signal during a select() call. The default SIGINT handler will schedule a KeyboardInterrupt exception to be raised as soon as possible. If ctypes is used to install a Python callback for PyOS_InputHook, this will happen as soon as the bytecode execution starts, so even if the first instruction of the callback is a `try: ... except KeyboardInterrupt` clause, it's actually too late. As ctypes doesn't allow a Python callback to raise an exception, this ends up with IPython detecting an internal error... not pretty. We must therefore ignore the SIGINT signals until we are sure the exception handler is active, in the Python callback.

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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Qt4's inputhook support function
Author: Christian Boos
"""
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Copyright (C) 2011 The IPython Development Team
#
# Distributed under the terms of the BSD License. The full license is in
# the file COPYING, distributed as part of this software.
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Imports
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
from IPython.external.qt_for_kernel import QtCore, QtGui
from IPython.lib.inputhook import allow_CTRL_C, ignore_CTRL_C, stdin_ready
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Code
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
def create_inputhook_qt4(mgr, app=None):
"""Create an input hook for running the Qt4 application event loop.
Parameters
----------
mgr : an InputHookManager
app : Qt Application, optional.
Running application to use. If not given, we probe Qt for an
existing application object, and create a new one if none is found.
Returns
-------
A pair consisting of a Qt Application (either the one given or the
one found or created) and a inputhook.
Notes
-----
We use a custom input hook instead of PyQt4's default one, as it
interacts better with the readline packages (issue #481).
The inputhook function works in tandem with a 'pre_prompt_hook'
which automatically restores the hook as an inputhook in case the
latter has been temporarily disabled after having intercepted a
KeyboardInterrupt.
"""
if app is None:
app = QtCore.QCoreApplication.instance()
if app is None:
app = QtGui.QApplication([" "])
# Re-use previously created inputhook if any
ip = get_ipython()
if hasattr(ip, '_inputhook_qt4'):
return app, ip._inputhook_qt4
# Otherwise create the inputhook_qt4/preprompthook_qt4 pair of
# hooks (they both share the got_kbdint flag)
got_kbdint = [False]
def inputhook_qt4():
"""PyOS_InputHook python hook for Qt4.
Process pending Qt events and if there's no pending keyboard
input, spend a short slice of time (50ms) running the Qt event
loop.
As a Python ctypes callback can't raise an exception, we catch
the KeyboardInterrupt and temporarily deactivate the hook,
which will let a *second* CTRL+C be processed normally and go
back to a clean prompt line.
"""
try:
allow_CTRL_C()
app = QtCore.QCoreApplication.instance()
app.processEvents(QtCore.QEventLoop.AllEvents, 300)
if not stdin_ready():
timer = QtCore.QTimer()
timer.timeout.connect(app.quit)
while not stdin_ready():
timer.start(50)
app.exec_()
timer.stop()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
ignore_CTRL_C()
got_kbdint[0] = True
print("\nKeyboardInterrupt - qt4 event loop interrupted!"
"\n * hit CTRL+C again to clear the prompt"
"\n * use '%gui none' to disable the event loop"
" permanently"
"\n and '%gui qt4' to re-enable it later")
mgr.clear_inputhook()
return 0
def preprompthook_qt4(ishell):
"""'pre_prompt_hook' used to restore the Qt4 input hook
(in case the latter was temporarily deactivated after a
CTRL+C)
"""
if got_kbdint[0]:
mgr.set_inputhook(inputhook_qt4)
got_kbdint[0] = False
ip._inputhook_qt4 = inputhook_qt4
ip.set_hook('pre_prompt_hook', preprompthook_qt4)
return app, inputhook_qt4