On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 15:04 +0100, Toni Alatalo wrote: > On Monday 07 November 2005 14:36, Jason Tackaberry wrote: > > argument you don't need: signal.connect(lambda dummy: sys.exit), or > > why can't you just do signal.connect(sys.exit) ?
Because in the example I gave, the signal provides an argument to the callback that isn't needed, and in fact, would break on sys.exit (maybe it's a string or object). So you need a function to eat the argument. lambda dummy: sys.exit Cheers, Jason.
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