I'll take your last sentence as a form of blessing to go file a bug report...
Filed as http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1171023&group_id=5470&atid=105470
I guess it makes more sense for any further discussion to go on there...
(Coincidentally, another bug report was filed just a few days ago for a closely related item. As Tim mentioned, the wait() without a timeout can never be interrupted by Ctrl-C, and somebody else reported that as a bug (1167930) only about three days before I encountered this one.)
-Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
