jpype && KeyboardInterrupt

gistfile1.txt

#!/bin/env python

from time import sleep
import signal
from jpype import *

startJVM(getDefaultJVMPath())

def handler(signum, frame):
    raise KeyboardInterrupt

#the overloaded signal handling has to be here to make KeyboardInterrupt work again
#please comment out to check how the script dies without doing any clean-up
signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, handler)

try:
    while True:
        print(".", end="", flush=True)
        sleep(1)
except BaseException as e:
    print(e, type(e))
finally:
    print("This should be always executed", flush=True)