[Tutor] Help with signals, please?

[Sheila King]

Apparently, this is one of those "platform" issues. I just uploaded the script
to my webhost, who runs a Linux server, and ran it in my Telnet account. It ran
just fine.

How can I get this effect in Windows?

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On Mon, 14 May 2001 05:46:05 GMT, Sheila King <sheila@spamcop.net> wrote:

:It won't run. It gives the following error message:
:
:Traceback (most recent call last):
:  File "E:\Python\Python20\Pythonwin\pywin\framework\scriptutils.py", line 301,
:in RunScript
:    exec codeObject in __main__.__dict__
:  File "E:\Python\Python20\testprograms\Boggle.py", line 64, in ?
:    signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, timesUp)
:AttributeError: SIGALRM
:
:There is even an example like this in Mark Lutz' _Programming Python_ on p. 124.
:
:I'm stumped.

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