KeyboardInterrupt catch does not shut down the socketserver

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <mailman.185.1242375959.8015.python-list at python.org>, Igor Katson 
wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> In message <mailman.183.1242371089.8015.python-list at python.org>, Igor
>> Katson wrote:
>>   
>>> I have problems in getting a SocketServer to shutdown.
>>
>> Do you want to do a shutdown or a close?
>>   
> I want the server close the socket ...

You want to do a close, do a close, not a shutdown 
<http://docs.python.org/library/socket.html>.