[Tutor] How to stop a specific thread in Python 2.7?

[Mats Wichmann]

On 9/25/24 11:24, marc nicole via Tutor wrote:
> Hello guys,
> 
> I want to know how to kill a specific running thread (say by its id)
> 
> for now I run and kill a thread like the following:
> # start thread
> thread1 = threading.Thread(target= self.some_func(), args=( ...,), )
> thread1.start()
> # kill the thread
> event_thread1 = threading.Event()
> event_thread1.set()
> 
> I know that set() will kill all running threads, but if there was thread2
> as well and I want to kill only thread1?
There's no official way - as usual we'll come back with a question 
(well, I will): Why Would You Want To Do That?   Threads often hold 
critical-section locks and other important things and killing such a 
thread will put you in an undefined, possibly unstable state.  That may 
not be your case... it would be useful if you described a use case that 
causes you to want to kill an individual thread.  Or are you just curious?