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In a message of Thu, 01 Oct 2015 07:30:59 +1000, Cameron Simpson writes:
>Most likely the Ctrl-C interrupts whatever system call is hanging, causin=
g it =

>to return (failed, probably with errno EINTR). And the python program res=
umes =

>because the OS system call has returned.
>
>Cheers,
>Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>

Shiva Upreti needs to post the current code, but last time I read it
the problem was that control-C is a KeyboardInterrupt, which the
program was catching, and then continuing the loop.

Laura