Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > """ > Although Python signal handlers are called asynchronously as far as the > Python user is concerned, they can only occur between the ``atomic'' > instructions of the Python interpreter. This means that signals arriving > during long calculations implemented purely in C (such as regular > expression matches on large bodies of text) may be delayed for an arbitrary > amount of time. > """ > > So - no workaround here, unless you patch python.
You could set up your own signal handler when entering the C extension. This should abort the extension (tricky) and call the Python signal handler. Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
