Killing a running thread

[Martin v. Löwis]

Alexander Skwar <lists.ASkwar at DigitalProjects.com> writes:

> The application itself is a wxPython GUI application.  Because the
> worker thread can take quite some time and consume a lot of memory, I'd
> like to have a button (or whatever) on the GUI which allows the user to
> kill the running thread.  But how can I do this? 

You cannot; killing a thread is not supported. You may succeed with
low-level operating system calls (kill, TerminateThread), but you are
on your own doing so.

Regards,
Martin