[Tutor] How to force stop a thread

[Amit Sethi]

Hi ,

I am trying to implement python threads in a gtk based app . Now the
thing is that in the application I have to fetch a lot of data from
various sources from web. During this time I wish to show a dialog
that indicates it to the user . During the same time I want to fetch
data as well . Now to implement this I have done:

        a=Wait_dialog()
	gtk.gdk.threads_init() 	
	lock=thread.allocate_lock()
	thread.start_new_thread(show_dialog,(lock,a))
	thread.start_new_thread(fetch,(lock,a))


Now I wish to stop the thread that shows the dialog so I can destroy
the dialog and continue with normal app

I am not able to understand how to do that ... Also is this the best
way to do this kind of thing???

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