Killing a thread

[Manish Marathe]

On 6/9/06, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
>
> Manish Marathe wrote:
>
> > I am creating threads using my self defined class which inherits the
> > threading.Thread class. I want to know how can I kill the threads which
> > are being created by the object of my self defined class.
>
> you cannot kill a thread "from the outside"; you have to design your
> thread tasks so they can kill themselves, when asked to do that.


Thanks for the reply. So can a thread listen to an event i.e. can we send an
event to the thread indicating to kill itself.

Thanks
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Manish Marathe
SpikeSource, Inc.
http://developer.spikesource.com
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