On 6 May, 20:58, Thomas Heller <thel...@ctypes.org> wrote: > If you look at the source code for time.sleep(), which CAN be interrupted > by pressing Ctrl-C, you will find that it is carefully programmed to be > interruptible (sp?). Which is not the case for select.select(), obviously.
Thanks - given this, would it be worth me submitting a documentation patch noting that select.select is not interruptible on Windows? > I guess the best way might be to split your select.select() call into several > ones, using a smaller timeout like 1 second for example. Yes, that's probably good enough for my case. > BTW: I have experimented with calling the win32 function > SetConsoleCtrlHandler() > before the call to select.select(). This allows to install a python callback > function which is called when Ctrl+C is pressed. However it seems this > callback > is not able to interrupt the select() call - but it can 'raise SystemExit()' > which will terminate the script. Here is the code: That's useful - I doubt I'll need it for this case, but I'll keep it in mind for the future. Thanks for the help. Paul. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list