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comments like this make me want to ask for a downvote button.

• developer2 6y ago
  So you are capable of writing a script in Python that always catches SIGINT and SIGTERM, exiting gracefully without an exception stack being thrown by core code? No? Right… no. Python is literally the only language I've used that cannot do this. Even PHP can do it. For real, PHP is overall a shit language (it has zero async/threading support), but it still handles signals according to POSIX (eg. it doesn't override signal handlers unless userland code does it, preserving default SIG_DFL behavior), unlike Python which breaks that simple contract. The "KeyboardInterrrupt" exception being thrown by core code before userland code is parsed and executed is such an extreme bastardization of POSIX standards that Python is simply, inexcusably, broken. I stand by my opinion that Python is not well-suited to applications written by a professional entity, intended to be shipped to 3rd-party clients. Python plays too loose with the fundamentals provided by the operating system to be a professional language.