Apparently, I don't understand threading

[jwsacksteder at ramprecision.com]

The following script does not behave as expected. I wanted to terminate the
'mythread' thread after 5 seconds. 

What I see is the threading.Thread call blocking until the 15 second sleep
is done. Suggestions?

 

import threading

from time import sleep

 

class FooClass:

            def __init__(self):

                        self._stop = threading.Event()

 

            def stall(self):

                        print self._stop.isSet()

                        while not self._stop.isSet():

                                    print "Please hold..."

                                    sleep(15)

                                    print "Done - Nudge,Nudge."

 

foo = FooClass()

mythread = threading.Thread(foo.stall())

print 'thread created'

mythread.start()

print 'thread started'

time.sleep(5)

print "thread stopped - Wink, Wink"

comm1._stop.Set()

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