[Tutor] killing a thread

[Kent Johnson]

Max Noel wrote:
> 
> On Feb 22, 2005, at 23:08, Bill Mill wrote:
> 
>> If I recall correctly, there is not a direct way. Instead, you're
>> going to want to have your worker thread check a queue it shares with
>> the parent every so often to see if the supervisor thread has sent a
>> "quit" message to it.
>>
>> Peace
>> Bill Mill
>> bill.mill at gmail.com
> 
> 
>     Using "direct" killing methods is not safe, because you never know 
> at which point of its execution you terminate the thread. That's a Bad 
> Thing(TM).
> 
>     So instead, the Right Thing is to implement an end() method in the 
> object you're using as a thread. That end() method just sets a flag 
> (say, isToTerminate) to True.
>     Since the thread is running a loop, all you then have to do is have 
> it check the isToTerminate flag at the beginning of each loop. If it's 
> True, exit the loop (thus terminating the thread as it reaches the end 
> of its run() method).

This recipe shows one way to do it:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/65448

Kent

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