Python 2.3.3 signals, threads & extensions: signal handling problem

[Dieter Maurer]

"Holger Joukl" <Holger.Joukl at LBBW.de> writes on Thu, 3 Jun 2004 14:48:05 +0200:
> migrating from good old python 1.5.2 to python 2.3, I have a problem
> running a program that features some threads which execute calls to
> an extension module.
> Problem is that all of a sudden, I cannot stop the program with a keyboard
> interrupt any more; the installed signal handler does not seem to receive
> the signal at all.

python-Bugs-756924 may be related to your problem.

If so, you have a chance that the problem is fixed in Python 2.4.