[Python-ideas] Thread stopping

Mathias Panzenböck grosser.meister.morti at gmx.net
Sat Mar 31 00:41:38 CEST 2012


On 03/30/2012 07:31 PM, Miki Tebeka wrote:
>
>     I propose to add Thread.interrupt() function.
>
> Does the new http://docs.python.org/dev/library/signal.html#signal.pthread_kill help in any way?
>

This is only available on Unix. You can't send a signal just to one thread in Windows. It's always 
sent to the whole process.



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