Killing a Thread

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:25:30 -0300, Richard Lamboj  
<richard.lamboj at bilcom.at> escribió:

> which Method is better to kill a Thread? Using Thread Events, or a  
> raising a
> Exception? Maybe someone has a small example for me?

The best way is simply NOT to do that. You don't kill a thread, you ask it  
to commit suicide.  There is no reliable way to forcefully shut down  
another thread.

The thread must periodically check some value (perhaps an Event object; in  
simple cases any variable will do) and (cleanly) exit when asked to.

Threads that run pure Python code may be interrupted using the API call  
PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc; look for a recipe using ctypes to call it from  
Python.

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Gabriel Genellina