Killing a running thread

[Alexander Skwar]

Hi!

I've got a application which uses some threading.Thread's to do the main
work.  The thread is spending most of its time in a map() loop.

The application itself is a wxPython GUI application.  Because the
worker thread can take quite some time and consume a lot of memory, I'd
like to have a button (or whatever) on the GUI which allows the user to
kill the running thread.  But how can I do this?  Can I kill the thread
by assigning None to the thread variable (t = threading.Thread(); t =
None)?

Thanks for any help,

Alexander Skwar
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