[triangle-zpug] blocking threads and capturing control-c

[philip at semanchuk.com]

Quoting Lee Nelson <lee_nelson at ncsu.edu>:

> The second question / problem relates to closing down my program.   The C
> code that I am basing my Python code on is setup to capture a keyboard
> interrupt event (ie control-c or control-break) which it uses to stop
> streaming data, issue a "Daq Stop" event to data turbine, and properly close
> down the sockets.  How can I capture this event in my Python code?

Hi Lee,
Have you looked at the signal module?

HTH
Philip