socket.accept()

[Peter Hansen]

marco wrote:
> 
> very much simplified a function looks like this:
> 
> def run():
>   mysocket = socket.socket(blabla)
>   mysocket.bind(blabla)
>   mysocket.listen(1)
>   while 1:
>     newsocket, addr = mysocket.accept()
>     # and so on...
> 
> now this loop is in a thread which, once started, will
> never die. since a thread must (?) be killed at the
> end of the program i do have a problem, because the
> program just doesn't exit
> how can i stopp the .accept()?

You cannot stop the accept, but you can contrive to have it
block the program for no longer than a brief moment, at which
point the thread can check a flag (as others have suggested)
to see if the thread should exit.

What you're looking for is the "select" standard module.

-Peter