"R. David Murray" <rdmur...@bitdance.com>: > On Mon, 01 Sep 2014 14:15:52 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: >> * 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".
You don't have to get that philosophical. "Immediately" means, "without delay", "without further I/O". Marko _______________________________________________ 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