Killing subservient threads

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:15:10 -0200, jimzat <jimzat at iname.com> escribió:

> I am using the thread module and calling thread.start_new_thread
> (...).  If I use t=thread.start_new_thread(...) and later set
> t.terminate, I get "AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute
> 'terminate'"

Use the threading module instead, that provides a higher level interface.  
If you originally had:

thread.start_new_thread(function, args)

then it becomes:

polling_thread = threading.Thread(target=function, args=args)
...
polling_thread.start()

> What is the proper way to do this?  I don't want to use globals as I
> will have multiple child windows of various classes.

Use an attribute of this Thread instance. Either a simple boolean or a  
Condition/Event object as Christian Heimes suggested.

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Gabriel Genellina