how to make a SimpleXMLRPCServer abort at CTRL-C under windows

[News123]

Hi Gabriel,

Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> En Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:03:51 -0300, News123 <news123 at free.fr> escribió:
> 
>> I'm using an XMLRPC server under Windows.
>>
>> What I wonder is how I could create a server, that can be killed with
>> CTRL-C
>>
>> The server aborts easily with CTRL-BREAK but not with CTRL-C (under
>> Windows)
>>
>> If I press CTRL-C it will only abort when the next RPC call occurs.
>> It seems it is blocking in the select() call in the handle_request()
>> function.
> 
> Python 2.6 and up behaves exactly as you want.
> On previous versions you may use this:
> 
> class MyXMLRPCServer(SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCServer):
> 
>     ... your methods ...
> 
>     if not hasattr(SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCServer, 'shutdown'):
> 
>         # pre 2.6
>         quit = False
> 
>         def serve_forever(self):
>             while not self.quit:
>                 self.handle_request()
> 
>         def shutdown(self):
>             self.quit = True
> 
>         def server_bind(self):
>             self.socket.settimeout(1.0)
>             SimpleXMLRPCServer.SimpleXMLRPCServer.server_bind(self)
> 

Overloading  server_bind() with your version solved my problem.

thanks again

N