How does ^C work in Python?

[Hal Murray]

dfoxfranke at gmail.com said:
> In Python, there's a minimal generic interrupt handler which calls
> Py_AddPendingCall() to schedule a call to a more complete handler. The main
> interpreter loop then calls Py_MakePendingCalls() every few iterations or on
> return from any system call.

Thanks.  I assume "system call" includes library calls as well as kernel 
calls.

So DNS lookups are non-interruptable, just like in c.


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