On Sun, 15 May 2011 09:44:04 +0000, Christoph Scheingraber wrote: > signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, interrupt_handler)
> This worked fine in some rare lucky cases, but most of the times, the > module I am using (my university's seismology project) catches the SIGINT > and quits: > > select.error: (4, 'Interrupted system call') After installing the signal handler, call: signal.siginterrupt(signal.SIGINT, False) This will cause (most) interrupted system calls to be restarted after the signal has been handled. > How can I prevent the imported module's function from catching the > interrupt signal? It isn't catching the signal. Unless you enable restarting of system calls, an interrupted system call will typically fail with EINTR. Python typically reports failures via exceptions; failures due to EINTR aren't handled differently. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list