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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:28:11 +0100
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In article <franck-BB4524.19152411022012@news.free.fr>,
 Franck Ditter <franck@ditter.org> wrote:
> How do you stop a looping computation with IDLE 3.2.x on MacOS-X Lion ?
> It hangs with the colored wheel...
> Ctl-C does not work.

Ctrl-C in the IDLE shell window works for me on OS X 10.7 Lion.  Did you 
use the python.org 3.2.2 64-bit-/32-bit installer for 10.6?  Do you have 
the latest ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.5.11 installed?

http://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad@acm.org