trapping keyboard interupt

[Rob Hall]

Thanks guys.

As always, the group has provided me with info above and beyond what I
expected!

Excellent stuff.

Rob


Rob Hall <bloke at ii.net> wrote in message
news:3da1a909$0$26414 at echo-01.iinet.net.au...
> Having a bit of trouble trapping the keyboard interupt.  I have something
> like this:
>
> continueFlag = 1
>
> try:
>     while continueFlag:
>         doSomeStuff
> except KeyboardInterrupt:
>     continueFlag = 0
>
> doCleanUpOperations
>
> Basically, I have a program that runs continuously.  Sometimes I need to
> terminate the program, save its state, and restart it at a later time.
> However,  In it, I have a long process that can take 5 minutes to
complete,
> and once this process starts, i don't want it to stop.  But I would like
it
> to know that as soon as it has finnished this process it should terminate.
>
> My intention was to trap the Keyboard Interupt, reset a flag that would
tell
> the program to exit the main loop.  But I can't figure how to resume
> execution from the point I gave the Keyboard Interupt.
>
> Can someone help?
>
> Rob
>
>