Ctrl-C handler, how to override?

[Aldo Cortesi]

Thus spake Bruce Edge (edgebruce at yahoo.com):

> How the @#$!$ do override the SIGINT handler?
> 
> I can create handlers for other signals, but not for SIGINT:
> 
> >>> getsignal(SIGINT)
> <built-in function default_int_handler>
> >>> def handler(signum, frame):
> ...   print "got signal", signum
> >>> signal(SIGINT, handler)
> 1
> >>> getsignal(SIGINT)
> <function handler at 0x81466f4>
> 
> ...Looks OK so far, but Ctrl-C's still call the default handler:
> 
> >>> 
> KeyboardInterrupt
> >>> 
> KeyboardInterrupt
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Bruce,

What you're seeing is a side-effect of running your code in
the interactive interpreter. Your code works fine when
run from a file.






Cheers,



Aldo



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