Guido van Rossum wrote: > Adam, perhaps at some point (Monday?) we could get together on > #python-dev and interact in real time on this issue. Probably even > better on the phone. This offer is open to anyone who is serious about > getting this resolved. Someone please take it -- I'm offering free > consulting here! > > I'm curious -- is there anyone here who understands why [Py]GTK is > using signals anyway? It's not like writing robust signal handling > code in C is at all easy or obvious. If instead of a signal a file > descriptor could be used, all problems would likely be gone.
The timeout handler was added for KeyboardInterrupt to be able to work when you want to Ctrl-C yourself out of the gtk.main() loop. Johan _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
