Tuvas wrote: > Is there a way to stop a thread with some command like t.stop()? Or any > other neat way to get around it? Thanks!
Sadly, no. While Java and many other programming languages have an interrupt() primitive, Python does not. You can approximate this by using a global variable to tell the thread when to stop, for example: shutdown = False class MyThread(Thread): def run(self): while not shutdown: # do whatever def kill_thread(): shutdown = True There's no general way to wake up a thread that's blocked--you have to satisfy the condition that's causing it to block. If it's waiting for input from a Queue, you have to push a dummy value down it to wake up the thread and give it a chance to check the shutdown flag. If it's blocking to do I/O, you'll have to use select() and provide a timeout value to check the flag periodically. -- David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list