On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Philip Winston <pwins...@gmail.com> wrote: > We have a multiprocess Python program that uses Queue to communicate > between processes. Recently we've seen some errors while blocked > waiting on Queue.get: > > IOError: [Errno 4] Interrupted system call > > What causes the exception? Is it necessary to catch this exception > and manually retry the Queue operation? Thanks.
Are you getting this when your application is shutdown ? I'm pretty sure you can safely ignore this exception and continue. cheers James -- -- James Mills -- -- "Problems are solved by method" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list