how do I listen on a socket without sucking up all the CPU time?

[Alex]

> select.select worked great, but now I've got other problems, namely
> figureing out why I'm no longer catching the KeyboardInterrupt
> exception I used to be able to catch.

This happens to me all the time, when I use C extension modules.  I wish
I knew how to fix it.  I think, the KeyboardInterrupt isn't caught until
you get back into the python interpreter.

Alex.

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