How to kill threading.Thread instance?

[dmitrey]

hi all,
Is there a better way to kill threading.Thread (running) instance than
this one
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/496960
(it's all I have found via google).

BTW, it should be noticed that lots of threading module methods have
no docstrings (in my Python 2.5), for example _Thread__bootstrap,
_Thread__stop.

Regards, D.