How can I tell where my python script is hanging?

Question

So I\'m debugging my python program and have encountered a bug that makes the program hang, as if in an infinite loop. Now, I had a problem with an infinite loop before, but

Answer 1

If your program has more than one thread, it could be ignoring ctrl-c because the one thread is wired up to the ctrl-c handler, but the live (runaway?) thread is deaf to it. The GIL (global interpreter lock) in CPython means that normally only one thread can actually be running at any one time. I think I solved my (perhaps) similar problem using this