On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Nicholas Cannon <nicholascann...@gmail.com> wrote: > Or can I safely stop the running threads and make them drop everything error > free?
This would be what I'd recommend. If someone wants to close your program, s/he should be allowed to - imagine if internet traffic is costly [1] and the query was done accidentally. So what you need is to have the shutdown divided into three steps: 1) Close the window, or at least show visually that it's shutting down. 2) Send a signal to the worker threads 3) When the worker threads all shut down, terminate the program. You can handle step 3 simply by ensuring that the threads aren't marked as daemons. Python won't shut down until they're all gone. Step 1 is, I suspect, already happening. So all you need to do is message the worker thread - and that can be done simply by setting a global variable or something. However, I'm not seeing any use of threads in your code. What thread is being cut off? What's the error you're seeing? ChrisA [1] "costly" might not mean money, although it can. But imagine you're on a slow connection and you can't afford to have other programs lagging out something that's important. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
