[Python-Dev] Proposal - KeyboardInterrupt should inherit directly from Exception

[Anthony Baxter]

>>> Michael Hudson wrote
> Parenthetically, could someone explain why this doesn't work[1]:
> [keyboard interrupt vs sigint]
> I think I hate readline.

readline messes up the signals & bitsnpieces far, far too much. In the 
unified messaging server at work, we reimplemented our own history
&c thing in the console, because that way we knew what it was doing.

Anthony.
(look for another large mass of checkins in the next day on the branch)

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