[SOLVED] Python socket accept in the main thread prevents quitting

Python socket accept in the main thread prevents quitting

I'm playing around with sockets in python, just for the purpose of learning about them. However I am really annoyed with the following problem:

import socket
soc = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET)
soc.bind(('localhost',8000))
soc.listen(0)
client = soc.accept()

While the socket is waiting for a connection, pressing ctrl-c does not quit the application.

How can I quit the application?

A similar issue was addressed in these two questions, but there the accept method was called from a separate thread and the problem was how to make ctrl-c kill that thread. Here the accept method is called from the main thread.

Edit: I am running python 3.3.0 on Win7 64 bit.

Solution

I couldn't find a way to kill the application using ctrl-c or any other way except for killing it through the task manager, so I wrote a workaround:

import socket,os
from threading import Thread

class socketListener(Thread):
    def run(self):
        soc = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET)
        soc.bind(('localhost',8000))
        soc.listen(0)
        client = soc.accept()

pid = os.getpid()
sl = socketListener()
sl.start()
input('Socket is listening, press any key to abort...')
os.kill(pid,9)

This runs the script in a separate thread, while waiting for a keystroke in the main thread. Once the user presses a key, the entire application is killed.