stop a thread safetely

[Zunbeltz Izaola]

On Fri, 13 May 2005 09:10:13 -0400, Peter Hansen wrote:

> 
> How did you intend to stop the thread in a manner which might be unsafe?
> (Hint, unless you're doing something unusual, you can't.)
> 

I have a threaded object (Mythread). It checks if want_thread
variable is True to return. The problem is that this object 
execute a function that is a tcp comunication

    def Client(self,Request,Answer):
        totalsent = 0
        while totalsent < 608:
            sent = self.sock.send(Request.struct2string()[totalsent:])
            if sent == 0:
                raise RuntimeError, "socket broken"
            totalsent = totalsent + sent

        if Request.Codigo != 37:
            self.WriteLog("Request",Request)
        data = self.sock.recv(608)
        Answer.string2struct(data)
        if int(Answer.Param[9]) != 37:
            self.WriteLog("Answer",Answer)


The Client function send a Request (them write it in a log file),
gets and answer and and write it. The problem is that when i stop
the thread a get somethime the Request writed but not the answer,
as if the funciton Client returns before it ends.

Zunbeltz

> -Peter