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

[Frank Millman]

"Aahz" <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote in message 
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> In article <mailman.2077.1265524158.28905.python-list at python.org>,
> Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
>>
>>Strange. With Python 2.6.4 I don't need to do that; I'd say the difference
>>is in the OS or antivirus (some AV are known to break the TCP stack).
>
> Perhaps, but I've also found that ctrl-C doesn't work on Windows.

I don't know if this is exactly the same, but FWIW ...

I had the following, in a test program -

    from wsgiref.simple_server import make_server

    myserver = MyServer()
    httpd = make_server('', 7789, myserver)
    httpd.serve_forever()

    try:
        while True:
            sleep(1)
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        httpd.shutdown()

I could not get it to respond to Ctrl-C.

Then I read somewhere that it must run in a separate thread, so I changed it 
like this -

-   httpd.serve_forever()
+   threading.Thread(target=httpd.serve_forever).start()

Now it does respond to Ctrl-C.

HTH

Frank Millman