waiting on an event blocks all signals

[John Schroeder]

^C only kills the main thread.  Use Control-Break to kill all threads.

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 12:32 PM, alan <alangrow at gmail.com> wrote:

> This ignores CTRL-C on every platform I've tested:
>
> python -c "import threading; threading.Event().wait()"
> ^C^C^C^C
>
> It looks to me like all signals are masked before entering wait(). Can
> someone familiar with the internals explain and/or justify this
> behavior? Thanks,
>
> -Alan
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