**List of steps to reproduce**:
Run a script with changes pages asynchronously. In this case the command line was `pwb -simulate:10 newitem -start:a -lang:da -touch`. To ensure there is anything left to do the `newitem.py` script was modified in this way:
def _callback(self, page, exc) -> None:
if True or exc is None and self.opt.touch:
....
def treat_page_and_item(self, page, item) -> None
if False and item and item.exists():
....
Run this script for a while, e.g. one minute and enforce a KeyboardInterrupt by pressing `Strg-C`. A blue message occurs:
`Waiting for 5 pages to be put. Estimated time remaining: 0:00:25`
Again press `Strg-C`. Now this message and question will be printed:
```There are 5 pages remaining in the queue. Estimated time remaining: 0:00:25
Really exit? ([y]es, [N]o):```
Now type `n` for no.
**What happens?**:
The script terminates immediately:
```
11 skip operations
6 read operations
6 write operations
Execution time: 24 seconds
Read operation time: 2.8 seconds
Skip operation time: 2.2 seconds
Write operation time: 4.0 seconds
Script terminated successfully.
```
Digging deeper in the code _putthread.is_alive() beomes False imediately after Keyboardinterrupt:
```
if _putthread is not threading.current_thread():
while (_putthread.is_alive()
and (page_put_queue.qsize() > 0
or page_put_queue_busy.qsize() > 0)):
try:
_putthread.join(1)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
print('???', _putthread.is_alive()) # This gives False which is not an expected behaviour
if input_yn('There are {} pages remaining in the queue. '
'Estimated time remaining: {}\nReally exit?'
.format(*remaining()),
default=False, automatic_quit=False):
```
**What should have happened instead?**:
`_putthread.is_alive()` should be `True` and the async calls should be processed further until the queue in done .
**Software version**:
Python 10, Pywikibot 7.4