On May 25, 10:40 am, eliben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a small wxPython application. Today I was trying to add some > RPC capability to it, so I implemented an instance of > SimpleXMLRPCServer that runs in a separate thread when invoked and > answers requests. > > All went fine until I realized that I have to sometimes stop the > server - which is where I ran into a problem. Python threads can not > be killed after they've been started. >
Why not use setDaemon( true ) on the thread running the XMLRPC server. When the main Python thread exits, it doesn't wait for so- called "daemon" threads and just kills them. Check out the "threading" module in the lib documentation -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
