[Tutor] How to deal with a thread that doesn't terminate

[Tony Cappellini]

Thanks Michael.



On Feb 19, 2008 11:23 PM, Michael Langford <mlangford.cs03 at gtalumni.org> wrote:
> Instead of using a thread, you could see if you could use a second
> process. For instance, the following would work on windows (and is
> killable).
>
> import subprocess
> import win32api
>
> class SpawnController(object):
>     def __init__(self,cmd):
>         self.cmdline = cmd
>
>     def start(self):
>         self.process = subprocess.Popen([self.cmdline])
>
>     def stop(self):
>         win32api.TerminateProcess(int(self.process._handle), -1
>
>        --michael
>
>
> On Feb 19, 2008 4:53 PM, Tony Cappellini <cappy2112 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > When I executing a program external to the main program in a thread,
> > and that thread hangs, can the thread be terminated?
> > How does one handle this situation?
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