On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 10:33:44PM -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > https://bugs.python.org/issue29926 was opened as an IDLE issue, which > means that most watching the new issues list would ignore it. But I > think it is an issue with _thread.interrupt_main (which IDLE calls in > respond to ^C) not interrupting time.sleep(n) in main thread*. I tested > on Windows, don't know yet about OP. Since there is no Expert's Index > listing for _thread (or threading), I am asking here for someone who > knows anything to take a look. > > * > >>> time.sleep(10) > <hit ^C immediately> > <debug print after interrupt_main() shows immediately> > <... remainder of 10 seconds pass> > KeyboardInterrupt
I get similar behaviour under Linux. I don't have the debug print, but the KeyboardInterrupt doesn't interrupt the sleep until the 10 seconds are up. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
