On 2010-12-31 10:28:26 -0800, John Nagle said:
Even worse, sending control-C to a multi-thread program is unreliable in CPython. See "http://blip.tv/file/2232410" for why. It's painful.
AFIK, that has been resolved in Python 3.2 with the introduction of an intelligent thread scheduler as part of the GIL release/acquire process.
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