SocketServer, its offspring, and threads

[darel.finkbeiner at gmail.com]

On May 25, 10:40 am, eliben <eli... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a small wxPython application. Today I was trying to add some
> RPC capability to it, so I implemented an instance of
> SimpleXMLRPCServer that runs in a separate thread when invoked and
> answers requests.
>
> All went fine until I realized that I have to sometimes stop the
> server - which is where I ran into a problem. Python threads can not
> be killed after they've been started.
>


Why not use setDaemon( true ) on the thread running the XMLRPC
server.  When the main Python thread exits, it doesn't wait for so-
called "daemon" threads and just kills them.

Check out the "threading" module in the lib documentation