Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> writes: [...] > What if you did this: > > os.signal(SIGINT, SIG_IGN) > ... code code code, including the Popen/wait ... > old_handler = os.signal(SIGINT, do_nothing_handler) > sleep(...) > os.signal(SIGINT, old_handler) > > SIG_IGN is different from a do-nothing handler; it prevents the process > seeing the signal at all, and therefore prevents the signal interrupting > system calls. > > So you activate your dummy-quit-sleeping function only around the sleep > itself.
Thanks. That is a good idea. I'll try that out. Or I could first try to switch to Python 3, as Chris suggested, to see if that makes the problem disappear. -- Piet van Oostrum <pie...@vanoostrum.org> WWW: http://piet.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
