On Jul 6, 2009, at 5:37 PM, Michael Mossey wrote:
What is required in a python program to make sure it catches a control-c on the command-line? Do some i/o? The OS here is Linux.
You can use a try/except to catch a KeyboardInterrupt exception, or you can trap it using the signal module:
http://docs.python.org/library/signal.html You want to trap SIGINT. HTH Philip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list