[issue42730] TypeError/hang inside of Time.Sleep() when _thread.interrupt_main()

[Eryk Sun]

Eryk Sun <eryksun at gmail.com> added the comment:

> Shouldn't the behaviour for _thread.interrupt_main() be always to 
> interrupt the main thread. 

The underlying C API function, PyErr_SetInterrupt(), simulates SIGINT without actually sending the signal to the process via kill() or raise(), but the doc string of interrupt_main() doesn't explain this, or at least it didn't used to. bpo-43356 generalized _thread.interrupt_main() to support simulating any available signal, and hopefully the new doc string [1] clarifies the intent.

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[1] https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/9976834f807ea63ca51bc4f89be457d734148682/Modules/_threadmodule.c#L1194

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stage:  -> resolved
status: open -> closed
superseder:  -> _thread.interrupt_main() errors if SIGINT handler in SIG_DFL, SIG_IGN

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