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| author | Berker Peksag <berker.peksag@gmail.com> | 2016-04-23 23:59:16 (GMT) |
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| committer | Berker Peksag <berker.peksag@gmail.com> | 2016-04-23 23:59:16 (GMT) |
| commit | 77e543c6cdd40debd215fa6e913fcc64c0748eb0 (patch) | |
| tree | b3256fec11acdb17c877e0556f5aa18413882c5a /Doc/library/signal.rst | |
| parent | 0269828320920b307ca20746ec70e8f63af64089 (diff) | |
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Issue #21382: Clarify signal.signal() documentation on Windows
All signal.SIG* constants may not be defined on Windows so a call like
signal.signal(signal.SIGPIPE, lambda signum, frame: sys.exit(1))
will raise an AttributeError.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/signal.rst b/Doc/library/signal.rst index 98eb7fd..d02a0a8 100644 --- a/Doc/library/signal.rst +++ b/Doc/library/signal.rst @@ -351,6 +351,9 @@ The :mod:`signal` module defines the following functions: On Windows, :func:`signal` can only be called with :const:`SIGABRT`, :const:`SIGFPE`, :const:`SIGILL`, :const:`SIGINT`, :const:`SIGSEGV`, or :const:`SIGTERM`. A :exc:`ValueError` will be raised in any other case. + Note that not all systems define the same set of signal names; an + :exc:`AttributeError` will be raised if a signal name is not defined as + ``SIG*`` module level constant. .. function:: sigpending() |