On Dec 8, 2007 2:17 AM, Johan Dahlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Hm. How about making that an option? I don't think on the OLPC XO this is a valid use case (end users never have a console where they might enter ^C). -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
