killing thread ?

[Paul Rubin]

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> writes:
>     >> You lose. There is no way to cancel a thread, period.
> 
>     Paul> Is there some inherent reason for that?  
> 
> Not all threads packages on which Python runs implement the desired
> functionality.

Well, there's all kinds of functionality that some OS's implement and
others don't.  Python should use the functionality when it's
available.