newbie question about SocketServer

[Steve Horsley]

akameswaran at gmail.com wrote:
> Is it just me or do the server_close() methods do squat?  I'm primarily
> working with a ThreadingTCPServer object and trying to create a simple
> server that can shut itself down.  But even simplest cases don't seem
> to work.
> 
> Admittedly I am trying it from within my handler class, but for some
> odd reason, the server is allways willing to handle one more request
> before dying.  Then it dies.
> 

I suspect that the server thread itself is stuck in 
socket.accept(), and won't exit until the next call arrives. Try 
calling server_close and then making a brief connection to the 
server to wake it up.

HTH
Steve