install Ctrl-C handler

[James Henderson]

On Wednesday 04 February 2004 12:04 pm, Uwe Mayer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can anybody tell me how you install something like a Ctrl-C handler in
> Python, i.e. a routine that is called when ^C is pressed and that can do
> cleanup work?
>
> Thanks
> Uwe

Maybe you require something more sophisticated but ctrl-C raises an exception 
that can be caught:

>>> try:
...     while 1: pass
... except KeyboardInterrupt:
...     print 'Interrupted!'
...
Interrupted!


James
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