How can I handle KeyboardInterrupt events with python's multiprocessing Pools? Here is a simple example:
from multiprocessing import Pool
from time import sleep
from sys import exit
def slowly_square(i):
sleep(1)
return i*i
def go():
pool = Pool(8)
try:
results = pool.map(slowly_square, range(40))
except KeyboardInterrupt:
# **** THIS PART NEVER EXECUTES. ****
pool.terminate()
print "You cancelled the program!"
sys.exit(1)
print "\nFinally, here are the results: ", results
if __name__ == "__main__":
go()
When running the code above, the KeyboardInterrupt
gets raised when I press ^C
, but the process simply hangs at that point and I have to kill it externally.
I want to be able to press ^C
at any time and cause all of the processes to exit gracefully.