On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Dave Angel <da...@davea.name> wrote:
> On 05/22/2013 04:11 PM, Jerry Hill wrote: > >> The KeyboardInterrupt exception is raised when someone presses Ctrl-C. >> If >> you catch it, and ignore it (which is what your code above is doing), then >> pressing Ctrl-C doesn't do anything. If you just take out the try/except, >> then you can hit Ctrl-C and interrupt your program as normal. >> >> > What do you mean "doesn't do anything" ? It certainly terminates the > loop, which was the intent. Provided of course that something else isn't > trapping the Ctrl-C first. > You're quite right. I mis-read the original code as having the try/except inside the loop. The way Jim wrote it was correct. -- Jerry
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