Interrupt python thread

[James Matthews]

Group all the threads in a list and call the stop method on all of them.

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 1:48 AM, BlueBird <phil at freehackers.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a program with a master thread and several slave threads.
>
> Whenever an exception occurs, in the master thread or in one of the
> slave threads, I would like to interrupt all the threads and the main
> program. Threading API does not seem to provide a way to stop a
> thread, is there anyway to achieve that ?
>
> The closest thing I found is thread.interrupt_main() but it's far from
> perfect :
> - it only allow to interrupt the main thread
> - if the main thread is sleeping, it does not interrupt it (at least
> on windows)
>
>    cheers,
>
>    Philippe
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