connect SIGINT to custom interrupt handler

[Nobody]

On Sun, 15 May 2011 09:44:04 +0000, Christoph Scheingraber wrote:

> signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, interrupt_handler)

> This worked fine in some rare lucky cases, but most of the times, the
> module I am using (my university's seismology project) catches the SIGINT
> and quits:
> 
> select.error: (4, 'Interrupted system call')

After installing the signal handler, call:

	signal.siginterrupt(signal.SIGINT, False)

This will cause (most) interrupted system calls to be restarted after the
signal has been handled.

> How can I prevent the imported module's function from catching the
> interrupt signal?

It isn't catching the signal. Unless you enable restarting of system
calls, an interrupted system call will typically fail with EINTR. Python
typically reports failures via exceptions; failures due to EINTR aren't
handled differently.