I've been developing with external multi-threaded libraries recently. I find it difficult to use the Python prompt to experiment with these libraries because there isn't any way to just shutdown all threads and try things again.
If I try to exit the prompt with background threads running, then Python hangs and I have to kill the process to exit. Ctrl C won't do it. Is there some way to brutally kill all background threads? Just for development purposes? Note: This isn't an insurmountable problem. If I write test scripts and run them from the command line I can still kill them easily. I just find it frustrating not be to able to explore interactively while working with a new library. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
