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diff --git a/Doc/library/signal.rst b/Doc/library/signal.rst index ac6cad9..01200b4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/signal.rst +++ b/Doc/library/signal.rst @@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ The :func:`signal.signal` function allows defining custom handlers to be executed when a signal is received. A small number of default handlers are installed: :const:`SIGPIPE` is ignored (so write errors on pipes and sockets can be reported as ordinary Python exceptions) and :const:`SIGINT` is -translated into a :exc:`KeyboardInterrupt` exception. +translated into a :exc:`KeyboardInterrupt` exception if the parent process +has not changed it. A handler for a particular signal, once set, remains installed until it is explicitly reset (Python emulates the BSD style interface regardless of the |