Keyboard interrupts, Idle vs. SciTE

[John Ladasky]

Hi there.

The following minimal code in Python 2.3.4 works under Idle v. 1.0.3,
but not under SciTE v. 1.66:

from time import sleep
try:
    while True:
        sleep(0.25)
        print ".",
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    print "\nKeyboard interrupt received.  Exiting program.\n\n"


Under SciTE, I do not get my "exiting program" message.  Instead, I get
the standard SciTE abort message:


>Process failed to respond; forcing abrupt termination...
>Exit code: 1


I much prefer the SciTE environment to Idle.  Is there any way that I
can rewrite my program to restore the keyboard interrupt function under
SciTE?  Alternately, is there some setting that I can change in SciTE
to accomplish the same effect?

Thanks for your input!


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