Stopping threads from the outside

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.1016973877.10866.python-list at python.org>,
 <holger at trillke.net> wrote:
>
>maybe a simple question:
>
>how could you stop a running threading.Thread from the *outside*? of
>course i could introduce some kind of flag into the event loop of the
>Thread.run-method, but i really would prefer to have a non-instrusive
>way for several reasons.
>
>Any way to do this?

Not really.  Why do you want to do it?
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