Re: signals in python

lance@markv.com
Tue, 1 Mar 94 12:27:55 PST

> From: Nick Seidenman <nick@osg.saic.com>
> Date: Tue, 1 Mar 1994 14:06:24 -0500 (EST)
>
> Ok, I looked in the faq, I looked in the book, and do not see
> any references to signal(2) other than posix.kill(). Is it called
> something else or is there no equiv in python? I realize python
> has it's own way of handling _exceptions_, but what I want is
> to be able to catch unix signals (other than keyboard interrupt).
>

There is no "signal" interface for Python at this time.
I am currently working on one and hopefully will have one within the next
month. Once I do, I will send it to Guido and make it available on
my FTP site..

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