python2.2: signals and exceptions: interrupted system call

[Jakub Moscicki]

> > A small problem: I get a signal during a system call (from xmlrpclib -> 
> > httplib) and an exception "IOError: [Errno 4] Interrupted system call" is 
> > raised (this is system dependant, on other machine it does not raise this 
> > exception). I have my own signal handler so I want to simply ignore this 
> > exception if it occures. But for a reason mysterious to me I cannot catch 
> > this exception in the main's program try block.
> 
> I cannot find anything mysterious here: The exception is IOError, but 
> you try to catch xmlrpclib.error, so you are not catching IOError, so 
> raising IOError aborts your program.

Yes, you are right. Mea culpa. Too many hours against too many 
lines of code ;)

kuba

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