stopping threads

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <3957C1DC.E7C77E2E at sec.noaa.gov>,
j vickroy  <jvickroy at sec.noaa.gov> wrote:
>
>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.

I'm currently reading up on Java threads, and while such a function
exists, the authors recommend very strongly against doing so.  Instead,
your thread should watch for some condition and return/exit from its
main function/method when that condition becomes true.
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