[Python-Dev] PEP 475 accepted

[Victor Stinner]

2015-02-03 15:25 GMT+01:00 Giampaolo Rodola' <g.rodola at gmail.com>:
> OK, thanks for clarifying, this is a very nice addition. One last thing:
> should InterruptedError exception be deprecated? As far as I understand it
> should never occur again, right?

signal.setinterrupt() is not deprecated so you can still "disable" the
PEP for a specific signal. Charles-François didn't want to deprecate
this function.
https://docs.python.org/dev/library/signal.html#signal.siginterrupt

Since the code to handle InterruptedError will be removed from the
stdlib, the purpose of this function becomes less obvious to me...

Victor