Python: signal.pause() equivalent on Windows

Question

I have my main application thread that spawns 2 threads and I catch SIGINT in my main thread to quit them nicely. On linux, I'm using signal.pause() and it works perfectly.

What is the best way to implement signal.pause() on Windows?

My ugly solution is:

my_queue.get(True, averylongtime)

And put something in my_queue in my signal handler. Note that if I don't specify a timeout, SIGINT is not caught. But I wonder if there's a better solution.

Thank you

Answer 1

Although it is not beautiful you can do something like this

import os, platform

match platform.system():
    case 'Linux':
        signal.pause()   
    case 'Windows':
         os.system('pause')
    case _:
        <default case>