How to terminate the function that runs every n seconds

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com>:

> 	The main thing to consider is that "killing" a thread doesn't
> work well in Python. Instead the thread has to check for some signal
> telling it to quit.

Alas, a thread can't check anything because it's blocked by I/O.


Marko