I\'m working on a python script that starts several processes and database connections. Every now and then I want to kill the script with a Ctrl+C sign
You can handle CTRL+C by catching the KeyboardInterrupt
exception. You can implement any clean-up code in the exception handler.
From Python's documentation:
import signal
import time
def handler(signum, frame):
print 'Here you go'
signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, handler)
time.sleep(10) # Press Ctrl+c here
And as a context manager:
import signal
class GracefulInterruptHandler(object):
def __init__(self, sig=signal.SIGINT):
self.sig = sig
def __enter__(self):
self.interrupted = False
self.released = False
self.original_handler = signal.getsignal(self.sig)
def handler(signum, frame):
self.release()
self.interrupted = True
signal.signal(self.sig, handler)
return self
def __exit__(self, type, value, tb):
self.release()
def release(self):
if self.released:
return False
signal.signal(self.sig, self.original_handler)
self.released = True
return True
To use:
with GracefulInterruptHandler() as h:
for i in xrange(1000):
print "..."
time.sleep(1)
if h.interrupted:
print "interrupted!"
time.sleep(2)
break
Nested handlers:
with GracefulInterruptHandler() as h1:
while True:
print "(1)..."
time.sleep(1)
with GracefulInterruptHandler() as h2:
while True:
print "\t(2)..."
time.sleep(1)
if h2.interrupted:
print "\t(2) interrupted!"
time.sleep(2)
break
if h1.interrupted:
print "(1) interrupted!"
time.sleep(2)
break
From here: https://gist.github.com/2907502
Referred main
as the main function and exit_gracefully
as the CTRL + c handler
if __name__ == '__main__':
try:
main()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
pass
finally:
exit_gracefully()
I adapted the code from @udi to support multiple signals (nothing fancy) :
class GracefulInterruptHandler(object):
def __init__(self, signals=(signal.SIGINT, signal.SIGTERM)):
self.signals = signals
self.original_handlers = {}
def __enter__(self):
self.interrupted = False
self.released = False
for sig in self.signals:
self.original_handlers[sig] = signal.getsignal(sig)
signal.signal(sig, self.handler)
return self
def handler(self, signum, frame):
self.release()
self.interrupted = True
def __exit__(self, type, value, tb):
self.release()
def release(self):
if self.released:
return False
for sig in self.signals:
signal.signal(sig, self.original_handlers[sig])
self.released = True
return True
This code support the keyboard interrupt call (SIGINT
) and the SIGTERM
(kill <process>
)
Personally, I couldn't use try/except KeyboardInterrupt because I was using standard socket (IPC) mode which is blocking. So the SIGINT was cueued, but came only after receiving data on the socket.
Setting a signal handler behaves the same.
On the other hand, this only works for an actual terminal. Other starting environments might not accept Ctrl+C, or pre-handle the signal.
Also, there are "Exceptions" and "BaseExceptions" in Python, which differ in the sense that interpreter needs to exit cleanly itself, so some exceptions have a higher priority than others (Exceptions is derived from BaseException)