Killing/Terminating a running thread

[Heiko Wundram]

Am Sam, 2002-09-07 um 22.42 schrieb Chris Liechti:
> sound like the news thread "Interrupting Python" could be interresting for 
> you...

I've looked at that, but the main problem is that this thread deals with
interrupting fullblown processes on the fly (from within the code), not
with interrupting a process by an exterior signal.

> the clean solution is to test for a flag and terminate if the flag is set.
> 
> e.g. you could provide a function:
> 
> def interrupted():
>     	return global_flag_if_user_wants_to_abort
> 
> and in you function in the queue:
> 
> def worker():
>     	while not interrupted():
>     	    	do_stuff()

This is what I do to shutdown the worker cleanly. The problem is:
do_stuff() doesn't return until it's complete, and I have no control
whatsoever about the internal workings of do_stuff().

What I actually wish to do is while the worker still is in do_stuff(),
to kill the worker as a whole, to discard all its data, when a timeout
on returning a value from do_stuff() occurs. It's not about clean
termination of a thread, but about killing the thread in case it takes
too long (in case do_stuff() takes to long).

Thanks for the advice anyway! :) I guess I at least did the general
interrupt on the worker right then... :)

Yours,

	Heiko Wundram
	Netzwart Wohnheim-D
	Zimmer 2206 - Universität 18 - 66123 Saarbrücken

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