Stopping threads from the outside

[G. Sumner Hayes]

In article <mailman.1016985696.13789.python-list at python.org>,
holger at trillke.net wrote:
>> >how could you stop a running threading.Thread from the *outside*?
[SNIP]
> Is the questions actually strange in any way? Like something
> you wouldn't usually like to do?

Yeah, killing a thread that's in unknown state can create all kinds
of problems (was it holding locks?  Is data it was accessing in a 
consistent state?  etc...).  It's pretty widely regarded as a Bad
Idea.

  Sumner

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