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[Python-Dev] Where to put the interrupt module?

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On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> IDLEfork, now in Lib/idlelib, uses a new C extension, the 'interrupt'
> module.  This is a truly minimal, and generally useful, module to
> provide a way to cause a KeyboardInterrupt in the main thread from a
> secondary thread.  I propose to move this to Modules, and make it a
> toplevel module.  This is the easiest thing in order to get it
> compiled and built for various platforms.

I haven't looked, but is it possible to make it raise an arbitrary
exception?  Last time I read the PyErr_CheckSignals code it looked possible. 
(That was yesterday, actually, regarding problems with the SSL module and
KeyboardInterrupts).

-Kevin

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