The best way to do this is by using a flag or event that the child-threads monitor each loop (or multiple times per loop if it's a long loop). If the flag is set, they exit themselves.
The parent thread only has to set the flag to cause the children to die. Kevin. "Bryan Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > iclinux wrote: > > a. how to exit the whole process in a thread? > > b. when thread doing a infinite loops, how to terminate the process?: > > As others noted, the threading module offers Thread.setDaemon. > As the doc says: "The entire Python program exits when no active > non-daemon threads are left." > > Python starts your program with one (non-daemon) thread which > is sometimes called the "main" thread. I suggest creating all > other threads as daemons. The process will then exit when the > main thread exits. > > If some other thread needs to end the process, it does so by > telling the main thread to exit. For example, we might leave > the main thread waiting at a lock (or semaphore), and exit if > the lock is ever released. > > > > it seems that the follow doesn't work, in my Windows XP: > > thread.start() > > thread.join() > > Is that part of the questions above, or another issue? > > > -- > --Bryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
