Python socket accept in the main thread prevents quitting

Question

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.

Answer 1

You should use CTRL + Break. That should kill it.