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

[Andrew Markebo]

| 
| 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.

Could it be something like ctrl-c isn't taken care of until you reach
the python code again??

So instead of doing 'x,y,z=select(x,y,z, verylongtime)' do:

while something:
        x,y,z=select(x,y,z, medium)
        if x:
                read

Could be a problem determining when x is closed or so on.. 

another thought.. you don't happen to have a try with a blank except
somewhere up the stack?? 

        /andy