Stopping a python thread

[cullman at my-deja.com]

>
> What do you need to do this for?  The standard response is that the
> spawned thread should determine when it should stop processing work
and
> execute a "return".  That will kill the thread automatically.  There
are
> a variety of ways of signalling the thread to exit.

I have an application that spawns a number of threads, basically
it is talking to/handling a bunch of different clients and
servers.  I would like that have a generic way of killing one
of these threads, without having to make every function I want
running on a thread be checking an event in some sort of cycle.

I know I could use a signal under linux, but I don't think that
this would be portable.

Any ideas?


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