Blocking ctrl-c to os.popen() or os.system()

[Chad Netzer]

On Saturday 04 January 2003 14:00, Sandeep Gupta wrote:
> I am executing a command from python via os.popen().  While the
> command is executing, if I type ctrl-c, the command receives the
> interrupt.

What is your system?  On Linux, with a trivial (and perhaps foolish) example 
it seems that the Python interpreter does indeed get the ctrl-c:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
import os
import time

if __name__ == '__main__':
    cmd_str = "sleep 20"
    print 'Running "%s"' % cmd_str
    os.popen2( cmd_str )

    print "Python now sleeping for 20 seconds."
    try:
        time.sleep(20)
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        print "ctrl-c was pressed"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

$ python popen_test.py 
Running "sleep 20"
Python now sleeping for 20 seconds.
ctrl-c was pressed


Note - I pressed ctrl-c to get that result. :)

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Chad Netzer
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