Clean Exit from Socket/Program

[Thomas Jensen]

Larry wrote:

> Can anyone give me some tips on...
> 1. How to shut down a python program cleanly

You can catch ctrl-c by catching the KeyboardError exception, like this:
try:
     ... do something ...
except KeyboardInterrupt:
     ... cleanup ...

> 2. How to ensure that my socket buffer is empty before closing.

Don't know about that one.

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