[Tutor] Cancelling a thread or blocked read

[Eike Welk]

On Saturday 31 March 2007 07:07, Dhiraj Sharma wrote:
> I would appreciate help on two related questions:
>
> 1. Is it possible to cancel (kill) a "child" thread from the main
> thread in Python running on Windows?

I don't think so. If you want to kill part of the program you must run 
it in a different process. 

I think only in old Linux versions it was possible to kill a thread, 
because there was no fundamental difference between process and 
thread. 

Regards Eike.