stopping threads

j vickroy jvickroy at sec.noaa.gov
Mon Jun 26 16:49:32 EDT 2000


Hello,

This may not be a Python question per se, but ...

Why is there no stop_execution() function/method in either the thread or
the threading modules?  It seems that if I want to stop an executing
(sub)process, I must launch it using os.fork() which is platform
specific.




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