[Yum] Re: Horrible response to keyboardInterrupt

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 20:33 -0700, CAI Qian wrote:
> --- CAI Qian <caiqian at cclom.cn> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > --- Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 19:32 -0700, CAI Qian wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Correct. That is one of situations of bad CTRL-C response. I was
> > > trying
> > > > to simulate a network failure or slow connection. It could be
> > quite
> > > > normal in reality.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Great, then please file this  against python.
> > > 
> > > $ ipython
> > > In [1]: import socket
> > > 
> > > In [4]: socket.gethostbyname('www.phy.duke.edu')
> > >
> >
> ^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C^C---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > KeyboardInterrupt                         Traceback (most recent
> > call
> > > last)
> > > 
> > > the socket call to gethostbyname does let you do an interrupt in
> > the
> > > middle of it - or at least - not at all times.
> > >
> > 
> > I know there must be something wrong with Python.
> > 
> 
> The question is, is this the only place that Python fails?

And yet, not an interesting question for this list.

-sv