Terminate a thread that doesn't check for events

[Liu Shuai]

Hi all,

 

I am aware that similar and probably same questions have been posted
many times, but I was unable to find a solution after reading a dozen
threads in the archive. So here it goes again.

 

I have a thread that does some heavy task (hash calculation, for
instance). I need a mechanism that works *across platforms* to stop that
calculation if user decides to exit. How can I do that? 

I can not do the standard "periodical checking" way since there is only
one function/step call in my thread.

 

Here is a snippet of my thread classes to help illustrate the problem:

 

class Dispatcher():

    def __init__(self):        

            self.__worker = Worker() 

    

    def start(self):

        self.__worker.start()        

    

    def stop():

            #how do i stop the worker?

 

class Worker(threading.Thread):

    def __init__(self):

    

    def run(self):

            oneTimeConsumingCall()

 

 

Thank you in advance for any suggestions/pointers.

 

LS

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