Windows - select.select, timeout and KeyboardInterrupt

[Paul Moore]

On 7 May 2010 15:36, Giampaolo Rodolà <g.rodola at gmail.com> wrote:
> You can easily avoid this by setting a lower timeout when calling
> asyncore.loop(), like 1 second or less (for example, Twisted uses
> 0.001 secs).

Thanks, that's what I was considering.

> Actually there's no reason for asyncore to have such a high default
> timeout (30 seconds).

I assumed it was to avoid busy waiting.

> I think this should be signaled on the bug tracker.

If a longer timeout doesn't have issues with busy waiting, then I'd agree.
Paul