Re: [Python-Dev] Python signal processing question

2010-07-22 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Greg Ewing writes: > Glyph Lefkowitz wrote: > > > The selection of RuntimeError in this particular case seems > > somewhat random and ad-hoc, Well, I guess we'd have to catch the person who wrote the code and ask. > Maybe this is something that could be considered in the > exception hierar

Re: [Python-Dev] Python signal processing question

2010-07-22 Thread Greg Ewing
Glyph Lefkowitz wrote: The selection of RuntimeError in this particular case seems somewhat random and ad-hoc, Indeed -- usually a RuntimeError indicates that something concerning the internals of Python itself is screwed up, e.g. attempting to execute invalid bytecode. The fact that it turn

Re: [Python-Dev] Python signal processing question

2010-07-21 Thread Glyph Lefkowitz
On Jul 22, 2010, at 12:00 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > My understanding of OSError is that the OS is saying "sorry, what you > tried to do is perfectly reasonable under some circumstances, but you > can't do that now." ENOMEM, EPERM, ENOENT etc fit this model. > > RuntimeError OTOH is basica

Re: [Python-Dev] Python signal processing question

2010-07-21 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Greg Ewing writes: > Scott McCarty wrote: > > All, I have searched everywhere (mostly the code and a little google) > > and I cannot understand where the SIGKILL signal gets checked when it is > > set as a handler. > > Possibly it's not being checked at all by Python, but > is being rejec

Re: [Python-Dev] Python signal processing question

2010-07-19 Thread Terry Reedy
On 7/19/2010 6:08 PM, average wrote: We'are sorry but we cannot help you. This mailing list is to work on developing Python (fixing bugs and adding new features to Python itself); if you're having problems using Python, please find another forum. Probably python-list (comp.lang.python) news gr

Re: [Python-Dev] Python signal processing question

2010-07-19 Thread Michael Crute
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Scott McCarty wrote: > All, I have searched everywhere (mostly the code and a little google) and I > cannot understand where the SIGKILL signal gets checked when it is set as a > handler. I have scoured the Modules/signalmodule.c only to find two > instances of th

Re: [Python-Dev] Python signal processing question

2010-07-19 Thread Greg Ewing
Scott McCarty wrote: All, I have searched everywhere (mostly the code and a little google) and I cannot understand where the SIGKILL signal gets checked when it is set as a handler. Possibly it's not being checked at all by Python, but is being rejected by the system call. The Darwin man page

Re: [Python-Dev] Python signal processing question

2010-07-19 Thread Simon Cross
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Steve Holden wrote: > Another potential developer walks away feeling unwanted? Let just kill this thread here. SIGKILL can't be caught. :) (I had sort of assumed that Marcos was being ironic). Schiavo Simon ___ Python

Re: [Python-Dev] Python signal processing question

2010-07-19 Thread Steve Holden
On 7/19/2010 11:08 PM, average wrote: >> We'are sorry but we cannot help you. This mailing list is to work on >> developing Python (fixing bugs and adding new features to Python itself); if >> you're having problems using Python, please find another forum. Probably >> python-list (comp.lang.pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] Python signal processing question

2010-07-19 Thread average
>   We'are sorry but we cannot help you. This mailing list is to work on > developing Python (fixing bugs and adding new features to Python itself); if > you're having problems using Python, please find another forum. Probably > python-list (comp.lang.python) news group/mailing list is the best pla

Re: [Python-Dev] Python signal processing question

2010-07-19 Thread Oleg Broytman
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 01:09:36PM -0400, Scott McCarty wrote: > I apologize if this is the wrong place to ask questions about Python C code, > but I didn't know where else to turn. I don't think the regular user group > will be technical enough to find this, am I wrong? I am sure there are qui

Re: [Python-Dev] Python signal processing question

2010-07-19 Thread Scott McCarty
I apologize if this is the wrong place to ask questions about Python C code, but I didn't know where else to turn. I don't think the regular user group will be technical enough to find this, am I wrong? There is no forum for something this in depth. This is not a usage problem, I want to know wher

Re: [Python-Dev] Python signal processing question

2010-07-19 Thread Oleg Broytman
Hello. We'are sorry but we cannot help you. This mailing list is to work on developing Python (fixing bugs and adding new features to Python itself); if you're having problems using Python, please find another forum. Probably python-list (comp.lang.python) news group/mailing list is the best pl

[Python-Dev] Python signal processing question

2010-07-19 Thread Scott McCarty
All, I have searched everywhere (mostly the code and a little google) and I cannot understand where the SIGKILL signal gets checked when it is set as a handler. I have scoured the Modules/signalmodule.c only to find two instances of the RuntimeError exception, but I cannot understand how python kno