How to get a raised exception from other thread

[Klaas]

In article <1129438147.182266.196790 at g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
 themightydoyle at gmail.com wrote:

> Nevermind.  I found a better solution.  I used shared memory to create
> a keep-alive flag.  I then use the select function with a specified
> timeout, and recheck the keep-alive flag after each timeout.
> 
> Thanx for all the input.

How about a threading.Event?

-Mike