I'm taking it from this thread that suppressing signals in a small window
is not something anyone in their right mind would really want to attempt.
:) (Or that if they did, it would have to be through a proper change to the
runtime, not something higher-level)

On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 7:14 AM Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote:

>
> Le 25/06/2020 à 16:00, Guido van Rossum a écrit :
> > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 02:02 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net
> > <mailto:solip...@pitrou.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     ...  The intent, though, is that any function
> >     waiting on an external event (this can be a timer, a socket, a
> >     lock, a directory...) should be interruptible so that Ctrl-C works in
> >     an interactive prompt.
> >
> > That’s not really true though right? Locks can block the REPL.
>
> On POSIX they don't.  On Windows it's a long-standing bug:
> https://bugs.python.org/issue29971
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
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