How to force a thread to stop

Mon Jul 24 03:48:31 EDT 2006

In message <1153582976.746036.312330 at m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
bryanjugglercryptographer at yahoo.com wrote:

> Python has no threadicide method, and its absence is not an
> oversight. Threads often have important business left to do, such
> as releasing locks on shared data; killing them at arbitrary times
> tends to leave the system in an inconsistent state.

Perhaps another reason to avoid threads and use processes instead?