threading questions

[Aahz]

In article <apvrd4$a5b$1 at ocasysi.rubbernet.net>,
Oleg Leschov  <kalmas at udm.ru> wrote:
>
>1. I want to be able, using whatever the threading.get_ident() returns
>(perhaps), to determine the state of thread (does it still run or not),
>and to kill the thread, in case that it, for example, is waiting for
>some data from socket whose network interface has died unexpectedly.

You can't kill threads.  Use timeoutsocket.py

(Note: Python 2.3 will contain the functionality of timeoutsocket --
batteries included!)
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