[Python-ideas] IDEA: do not alter default SIGINT handling

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Sep 15 11:44:04 CEST 2009


[Greg]
>> What do you mean? Ctrl-C interrupts time.sleep()
>> okay in my Python (on MacOSX).

[ryles]
> it doesn't work on Windows XP.

It is, indeed, Windows. (I didn't realise the *nix based OS's didn't
have this problem - an artifact of mostly using Python on Windows,
despite the fact that I do my development *of* Python on Linux).

Cheers,
Nick.

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