KeyboardInterrupt not caught

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:47:43 -0800, ruka_at_ wrote:

> Hi,
> why is KeyboardInterrupt not caught (xp)?
> import sys
> try:
>     inp = sys.stdin.read()
> except (KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit):
>     print "kbd-interr,SystemExit"
> except EOFError:
>     print "eof encountered"

I don't think you ever get an EOFError from stdin. If you type ^D
immediately, stdin.read() returns an empty string.


> except:
>     print "caught all"
>     self.showtraceback()

I don't imagine you'll get any other exceptions either.

Not that it matters, but what's self?



> print "normal end"
> 
> result after script startet and  ^C hit:
>>ctrl_test.py
> normal end
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\work\py_src\ctrl_test.py", line 11, in ?
>     print "normal end"
> KeyboardInterrupt

It works as expected for me.

I seem to have a vague recollection that the keyboard interrupt under
Windows isn't ^C but something else... ^Z maybe?



-- 
Steven.