thread, threading; how to kill a thread?

[Aaron Bingham]

Jerry Sievers wrote:

>I have limited experience with threaded apps and plenty with old style
>forked heavyweight multi-processing apps.
>
>Wondering if there is a simple way from a main python program to kill
>a running thread?  
>
There is no way to 'kill' a thread in Python.  You will need to do 
something like

def timedLoop():
    while not done:
        time.sleep(10)
        doSomething()

Clearly, done should be implemented as an instance variable of the 
thread object rather than a global, and it should probably be set by a 
setDone() method that does any necessary locking.  And yes, the thread 
will not terminate immediately, but only the next time the loop test is 
executed.

Aaron