I figured out the problem, fix involves modifying one of the lines in the original program (from http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/de40b36c6f0c53cc) to: raw_lflag = self.lflag & ~(termios.ICANON|termios.ECHO|termios.ISIG)
(termios.ISIG was added) Lorin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
