On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Nobody <nob...@nowhere.com> wrote: > The only robust solution is to use a separate process (threads won't > suffice, as they don't have a .kill() method). >
Forking a thread to discuss threads.... ahem. Why is it that threads can't be killed? Do Python threads correspond to OS-provided threads (eg POSIX threads on Linux)? Every OS threading library I've seen has some way of killing threads, although I've not looked in detail into POSIX threads there (there seem to be two options, pthread_kill and pthread_cancel, that could be used, but I've not used either). If nothing else, it ought to be possible to implement a high level kill simply by setting a flag that the interpreter will inspect every few commands, the same way that KeyboardInterrupt is checked for. Is it just that nobody's implemented it, or is there a good reason for avoiding offering this sort of thing? Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list