10:31 <depesz> hi. i have program that does sleep(), and I want the sleep() to end when I'll send USR1 signal. I can do Signal.trap(), and it is being processed, but after signal handler, it just goes back to sleep. how can I make it stop sleeping ?

10:34 <kjetilho> use select to sleep instead? (non-Pythonista graybeard talking)

10:34 <depesz> [].select ?

10:34 <depesz> not sure i follow. care to point me to doc/example ?

10:35 <kjetilho> select.select((), (), (), 3.14) will sleep for 3.14 seconds

10:36 <depesz> select': wrong number of arguments (given 0, expected 1..4) (ArgumentError)

10:36 <kjetilho> you did import select first?

10:37 <depesz> cannot load such file -- select (LoadError)

10:37 <kjetilho> not on Unix?

10:37 <depesz> duckduckgo-ing ruby select shows just shows array thing.

10:37 <depesz> well, on linux.

10:37 <depesz> sorry, i can't really stand unix.

10:37 <depesz> too used to gnu extensiosn.

10:38 <kjetilho> whaaa - why did I think I was in #python?

10:38 <kjetilho> sorry!

10:38 <depesz> that explains the confusion :)

10:39 <kjetilho> in Ruby it is IO.select

10:40 <depesz> thanks.

10:40 <kjetilho> yep, seems to work the same: IO.select([],[],[], 3.14)