Why can't I handle a KeyboardInterrupt in python?

Question

I\'m writing python 2.6.6 code on windows that looks like this:

try:
    dostuff()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    print \"Interrupted!\"
except:
    print \"S         


        

Answer 1

def foo():
    try:
        x=0
        while 1:
            x+=1
            print (x)
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
       print ("interrupted!!")
foo()

That works fine.