[Python-Dev] Proposal - KeyboardInterrupt should inherit directly from Exception (original) (raw)

Thomas Wouters thomas@xs4all.net
Thu, 8 Nov 2001 12🔞53 +0100

On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 05:24:53AM -0500, Michael Hudson wrote:

>>> signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, interrupt) >>> ^C KeyboardInterrupt

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I think I hate readline.

Exactly :)

[1] Actually I know, on thinking about it, but it still sucks. Is this worth working around?

I don't think so, but it's worth keeping in mind when writing your readline replacement, or your REPL/interactive-interpreter replacement.

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