killing thread ?

[Uwe Schmitt]

Hi,

AFAIK there is no method in the threading module to kill a thread.
Each thread has to terminate itself by watching status variables.
But: what happens if I start a thread, and when I want to kill
this thread, I delete all references to the according Thread object,
and call the garbage collector. 
Will this work ??

My motivation is to watch some functions, where I have no
access to the functions implementation. 

And another question: how fast is the garbage collector ?


Greetings, Uwe.

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