How to force a thread to stop

[Steve Holden]

Carl J. Van Arsdall wrote:
[... rant ...]
> So with this whole "hey mr. nice thread, please die for me" concept gets 
> ugly quickly in complex situations and doesn't scale well at all.  
> Furthermore, say you have a complex systems where users can write 
> pluggable modules.  IF a module gets stuck inside of some screwed up 
> loop and is unable to poll for messages there's no way to kill the 
> module without killing the whole system.  Any of you guys thought of a 
> way around this scenario?
> 
> 

Communications through Queue.Queue objects can help. But if you research 
the history of this design decision in the language you should discover 
there are fairly sound rasons for not allowing arbitrary "threadicide".

regards
  Steve
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