CTRL-C style interrupt of IronPython scripts in the Workbench Mechanical scripting interface?

I run scripts in the Mechanical GUI.

Sometimes, it would be convenient to interrupt a script.

However, the scripting interface in Mechanical does not respond to CTRL-C input, which would interrupt my script if I ran it in an ironpython console window.

My question: Is there any way to interrupt a running script using a) keyboard inputs or b) another method?

Thank you!

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Mike.Thompson

I don’t think this is possible. You can code checks to see if a file exists and then externally create that file when you want code to exit. That is the best I have been able to come up with. Mechanical is locked up while code is executing and does not support multi threaded code.

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augustbrandberg

Ok, then I will use a file existence check. Thank you!

augustbrandberg

Minimal implementation for future me and others interested:

import os
def abort_requester_check(abort_file):
    if os.path.isfile(abort_file):
        raise IOError("Aborting due to existence of abort file " + abort_file)

counter = 0
while True:
    counter += 1
    abort_requester_check(abort_file)