On Mon, 01 Sep 2014 11:47:07 -0400 "R. David Murray" <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote: > > > > The two requirements are: > > > > * Allow the application to react to signals immediately in the main > > flow. > > You don't want to be writing your code in Python then. In Python > you *never* get to react immediately to signals. The interpreter > sets a flag and calls the python signal handler later. Yes, the > call is ASAP, but ASAP is *not* "immediately".
Especially if the signal is delivered to another thread (which is OS-dependent), and the main thread is blocked in *another* system call ;-) Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
