On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 1:47 AM, Jon Ribbens <jon+use...@unequivocal.eu> wrote: > On 2017-08-25, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> That looks like an exception to me. Not a "process is now terminated". >> That's what happened when I pressed Ctrl-C (the IP address was >> deliberately picked as one that doesn't currently exist on my network, >> so it took time). > > Ok yes, so ctrl-C is sending SIGINT which interrupts the system call > and is then caught as a Python exception, so this is very similar to > the SIGALRM idea you already suggested, in that it doesn't work with > threads, except it also relies on there being a person there to press > ctrl-C. So we still don't have any workable solution to the problem.
The two complement each other. Want something on a specified clock? SIGALRM. Want to handle that fuzzy notion of "it's been too long"? Let the user hit Ctrl-C. They work basically the same way, from different causes. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
