safest way to kill a thread

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To Catch the "SystemExit"

import thread
from time import sleep
import sys

def t1():
try:
i=0
while 1:
print i+1
i += 1
sleep(1)
except SystemExit:
pass

thread.start_new_thread(t1, ())
sleep(3)


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