[Python-Dev] Where to put the interrupt module? (original) (raw)

Kevin Jacobs jacobs@penguin.theopalgroup.com
Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:01:39 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Guido van Rossum wrote:

IDLEfork, now in Lib/idlelib, uses a new C extension, the 'interrupt' module. This is a truly minimal, and generally useful, module to provide a way to cause a KeyboardInterrupt in the main thread from a secondary thread. I propose to move this to Modules, and make it a toplevel module. This is the easiest thing in order to get it compiled and built for various platforms.

I haven't looked, but is it possible to make it raise an arbitrary exception? Last time I read the PyErr_CheckSignals code it looked possible. (That was yesterday, actually, regarding problems with the SSL module and KeyboardInterrupts).

-Kevin

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