[Tutor] How to kill a thread
Laura Creighton
lac at openend.se
Sun Nov 22 06:54:39 EST 2015
In a message of Sun, 22 Nov 2015 11:23:58 +0530, CMG Thrissur writes:
>Hello,
>
>I have seen some examples of terminating a thread the safe way. But is
>there a way to kill a thread without worrying about what happens next.
>Like thread.stop() or something
>
>George
import sys
sys.exit(1)
This will brutally kill the whole process. Sometimes that is what you
want. Most of the time, it isn't. Python doesn't have a way to
grab a thread and kill it, it can only ask it to please stop themselves.
Laura
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