Catching control-C

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> Philip Semanchuk <philip at semanchuk.com> (PS) wrote:

>PS> On Jul 6, 2009, at 5:37 PM, Michael Mossey wrote:

>>> What is required in a python program to make sure it catches a  control-
>>> c on the command-line? Do some i/o? The OS here is Linux.

>PS> You can use a try/except to catch a KeyboardInterrupt exception, or  you
>PS> can trap it using the signal module:
>PS> http://docs.python.org/library/signal.html

>PS> You want to trap SIGINT.

And make sure threads don't mess up the signal handling.
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