How to stop program when threads is sleeping

[placid]

many_years_after wrote:
> Carsten Haese wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 22:55 -0800, many_years_after wrote:
> > > Hi, pythoners:
> > >
> > >       There is a problem I couldn't dispose. I start a thread in the my
> > > program. The thread will do something before executing time.sleep().
> > > When the user give a signal to the main thread (such as click the 'end'
> > > button or close the window), the thread should end it's running. But
> > > how to end the threading when it's sleeping? I set an flag to the
> > > thread, but it doesn't work.
> >
> > Is the thread supposed to do some additional work after being woken up?
> > If not, there is no point in going to sleep in the first place and the
> > thread should just terminate when it has completed its task. If yes, I'd
> > use a threading.Event object to .wait() on in the sub-thread rather than
> > putting it to sleep, and then .set() the event object in the main thread
> > when it's time to wake up the sub-thread.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > Carsten.
>
> While , there is something wrong in my expression. What I mean is the
> thread will wait some time after doing some tasks. I want to know is
> there any method to end the thread or make it out of execution of
> waiting. I use time.sleep() to let the thread wait.

So you want a way of stopping a thread while its blocked (waiting) what
ever seconds in the time.sleep() method ?

> Thanks.

If the thread is supposed to do more operation then i would follow what
Carsten suggested.

Cheers