[Python-ideas] Should stdlib provide something to properly handle SIGINT/SIGTERM signals?

[Terry Reedy]

On 12/27/2011 12:57 PM, Giampaolo Rodolà wrote:
> Since this is a problem which occurs very often, I'd like to hear your
> opinion as to whether something like this might find some place in the
> python stdlib (signal module maybe?).
> Please read the discussion included in this recipe:
> http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577997/
> It should provide a description of the problem and the general use case.

It seems to me that your problem is this

"From http://docs.python.org/library/atexit.html:
     the functions registered via this module are not called when the 
program is killed by a signal not handled by Python
"

So it seems to me that the solution should be an option to change that, 
or rather, change the handling of exit signals.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy