From eccfce4606aa1d6a9ea6ecf3799cb821d03344bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Derzsi=20D=C3=A1niel?= <daniel@tohka.us>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 15:09:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] task: Fix memory leak related to Python 3 signal API changes

Python 3's signal.py API does not properly support custom signal handlers. An exception is created every frame because of this, which fills up the memory of the application.

Closes #873
---
 direct/src/task/Task.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/direct/src/task/Task.py b/direct/src/task/Task.py
index e67f191d83..93e30eb3db 100644
--- a/direct/src/task/Task.py
+++ b/direct/src/task/Task.py
@@ -17,9 +17,13 @@ from direct.showbase.MessengerGlobal import messenger
 import types
 import random
 import importlib
+import sys
 
 try:
-    import signal
+    if sys.version_info >= (3, 0):
+        import _signal as signal
+    else:
+        import signal
 except ImportError:
     signal = None