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[lrobb]

Is there a better way to stop a BaseHTTPServer than Ctrl-C?

"lrobb" <lrobb at home.com> wrote in message
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> I have a global timer thread that cycles an event every 20 minutes.
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> When I stop the program via (Ctrl-C), this thread doesn't die.
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> How can I stop him?
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> According to the threading docs, I can't :
> "Python's Thread class supports a subset of the behavior of Java's Thread
> class; currently,
> there are no priorities, no thread groups, and threads cannot be
destroyed,
> stopped,
> suspended, resumed, or interrupted"
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> Whats up with that?
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