Salut!, amis français!  (Und auch sonst so, natürlich.)

POSIX has recently standardized a NSIG_MAX constant in <limits.h> [1]:

  The value of {NSIG_MAX} shall be no greater than the number of signals that the sigset_t type (see [cross-ref to <signal.h>]) is capable of representing, ignoring any restrictions imposed by sigfillset() or sigaddset().

I'm personally following an advise of Rich Felker in the meantime:

  #ifdef NSIG_MAX
  # undef NSIG
  # define NSIG           NSIG_MAX
  #elif !defined NSIG
  # define NSIG           ((sizeof(sigset_t) * 8) - 1)
  #endif

That is for "old" signals only, there; maybe reducing this to

  #undef NSIG
  #ifdef NSIG_MAX
  # define NSIG  NSIG_MAX
  #else
  # define NSIG  ((sizeof(sigset_t) * 8) - 1)
  #endif 

should do the trick for Python on any POSIX system?
Ciao from, eh, gray, Germany :)

[1] <http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=741#c1834>