[Python-Dev] Re: Intended invariants for signals in CPython

I'm taking it from this thread that suppressing signals in a small window is not something anyone in their right mind would really want to attempt. :) (Or that if they did, it would have to be through a proper change to the runtime, not something higher-level) On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 7:14 AM Antoine Pitrou wrote:

Le 25/06/2020 à 16:00, Guido van Rossum a écrit :

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On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 02:02 Antoine Pitrou mailto:solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:

... The intent, though, is that any function waiting on an external event (this can be a timer, a socket, a lock, a directory...) should be interruptible so that Ctrl-C works in an interactive prompt.

That’s not really true though right? Locks can block the REPL.

On POSIX they don't. On Windows it's a long-standing bug: https://bugs.python.org/issue29971

Regards

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