[issue28466] SIGALRM fails to interrupt time.sleep() call on Python 3.5

Martin Panter added the comment: This is by design; see PEP 475, and the documentation . If you make your signal handler raise an exception, it will interrupt the sleep() call most of the time. But if the signal happens to be received j

[issue28466] SIGALRM fails to interrupt time.sleep() call on Python 3.5

Changes by Ryan Petrello : -- title: SIGALRM fails to interrupt time.sleep() call on Python 3.6 -> SIGALRM fails to interrupt time.sleep() call on Python 3.5 ___ Python tracker