tholzer added the comment: And a test case for smtplib:
import threading import signal import os import smtplib def go(): running = True pid = os.getpid() def killer(): while running: os.kill(pid, signal.SIGINT) signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, lambda x,y: None) thread = threading.Thread(target=killer) thread.start() while 1: try: smtplib.SMTP('localhost') except Exception, ex: running = False raise if __name__ == '__main__': go() Fails with: socket.error: [Errno 4] Interrupted system call ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20611> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com