James Thompson

Seattle, WA

http://codingvariation.blogspot.com

I used to be a senior fellow in the lab of Dr. David Baker. I worked on modeling protein structures using computers.

I have a new job, but this isn't the place to discuss it.

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How do I capture SIGINT in Python?

python control signals asked Jul 10, 2009 at 22:49

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98 votes

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