break/interrupt a time.sleep() in python

Question

I need to break from time.sleep() using ctrl c.

While 1:
    time.sleep(60)

In the above code when the control enters time.sleep function a

Answer 1

The KeyboardInterrupt exception is raised when a user hits the interrupt key, Ctrl-C. In python this is translated from a SIGINT signal. That means, you can get handle it however you want using the signal module:

import signal

def handler(signum, frame):
    print("do whatever, like call thread.interrupt_main()")

signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, handler)
print("Waiting for SIGINT...")
signal.pause()

That way, you can do whatever you want at the receipt of a keyboard interrupt.