Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Discussion of how to spell SIGKILL looks like bikeshed painting to me, but the question of how to extend graceful interrupt behavior to C modules looks worthy of an idea to me.
Is that too hard or too rare a need?
If someone can come up with an adequate C API spelling of the change (e.g. a PYTHON_BEGIN_ALLOW_SIGINT_ABORT/PYTHON_END_ALLOW_SIGINT_ABORT) and define it in such a way that the burden for cleaning up before resumption of execution of Python code is placed on the developer using the new API then I'd be +1. For a C API spelling with the semantics of a genuine C abort for the duration, I'd probably be -0 at best. I like Ctrl-C hitting exception handlers and finally clauses. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------