[Python-checkins] bpo-28795: Signal documentation: Fix misleading statement. (GH-13121)

Tue May 7 11:55:43 EDT 2019

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/721729fca4fab9fd11861844880b3f3780015ae0
commit: 721729fca4fab9fd11861844880b3f3780015ae0
branch: 3.7
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2019年05月07日T08:55:39-07:00
summary:
bpo-28795: Signal documentation: Fix misleading statement. (GH-13121)
(cherry picked from commit e85ef7a7eacdef2f43e6bf2e67f335100e7ef2da)
Co-authored-by: Julien Palard <julien at palard.fr>
files:
M Doc/library/signal.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/signal.rst b/Doc/library/signal.rst
index 148a59c7105e..b6716eea95fb 100644
--- a/Doc/library/signal.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/signal.rst
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ The :func:`signal.signal` function allows defining custom handlers to be
 executed when a signal is received. A small number of default handlers are
 installed: :const:`SIGPIPE` is ignored (so write errors on pipes and sockets
 can be reported as ordinary Python exceptions) and :const:`SIGINT` is
-translated into a :exc:`KeyboardInterrupt` exception.
+translated into a :exc:`KeyboardInterrupt` exception if the parent process
+has not changed it.
 
 A handler for a particular signal, once set, remains installed until it is
 explicitly reset (Python emulates the BSD style interface regardless of the
