[Python-Dev] Catch SIGINT at Python startup

[Guido van Rossum]

Actually it sounds like there's some overly general except clause
somewhere that should be adjusted to catch just "Exception" instead of
"*".

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
> On 08/03/2010 13:12, Victor Stinner wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wrote patches for the issue #3137 and I would like your opinion about my
>> solution (not directly about the patches): I propose to consider a SIGINT
>> during startup as a fatal error. If you press CTRL+c while Python is
>> starting,
>> Python displays an error and exit with the code 1.
>>
>>
>
> That sounds like a good solution to me. +1
>
> Michael
>
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