Killing threads

[Aahz]

In article <53ebfff9-448f-438f-aa93-a2187bf13056 at f1g2000prb.googlegroups.com>,
imageguy  <imageguy1206 at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Apr 4, 10:43=A0pm, ericwoodwo... at gmail.com wrote:
>> 
>> The issue that I'm having is...I don't know how to kill this app in
>> window. 
>
>I am not an expert either, however, I think the standard practice is
>to use and threading.Event to communicate with the threads.

Nope, Eric had the right idea the first time: use Queue.Queue.  And the
reason is precisely because you're not a thread expert; using Queue is
the easiest way to avoid deadlocks and other threading problems.

For more info, see the slides from my thread tutorial:
http://pythoncraft.com/OSCON2001/
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