Stopping a python thread

[Oleg Broytmann]

Hi!

   I am not the author of the original question, but still...

On 18 Oct 2000, Aahz Maruch wrote:
> In article <8sksk4$b6c$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <cullman at my-deja.com> wrote:
> >
> >Is there any support for stopping a thread that was spawned from the
> >main thread?
> 
> What do you need to do this for?  The standard response is that the
> spawned thread should determine when it should stop processing work and
> execute a "return".  That will kill the thread automatically.  There are

   But what if a thread just waited for some event and cannot return? For
example, a thread that uses urllib to retrieve a file and urllib just
hangs; you know, urllib is pretty bad regarding timeouts :(

> a variety of ways of signalling the thread to exit.

   Which ways? (I'm really interested 'cause I'm writing and debugging a
framework for mananging a big collections of URLs; currently the best
solution I've found is forking - just kill a process on timeout; next thing
to try will be threading and asyncore-based robots)

Oleg.            (All opinions are mine and not of my employer)
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    Oleg Broytmann      Foundation for Effective Policies      phd at phd.russ.ru
           Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.