Stopping a python thread

[Aahz Maruch]

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
a variety of ways of signalling the thread to exit.
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