I am trying to write a multi-threaded program and use pexpect along with it. All works fine until I try to close the connection handle. That thread keeps waiting until the connection handle closes. It actually never comes out of that command(connection_handle.close()). If I manually kill it using kill command, the thread comes out and quits otherwise it is in the wait state forever.
def daemon(self): self.continue_hearbeats_lock.acquire() self.continue_heartbeats = True self.continue_hearbeats_lock.release() thrdHandshake = threading.Event() threading.Thread(target=self.RunTests,name='Run_Te st_Thread') while self.continue_heartbeats: pass def RunTests(self): self.createconnection() self.closeconnection() def closeconnection() self.log("Closing connection for device") self.connection_handle.close() createconnection is a API which creates SSH connection to a remote machine. And upon running, it hangs at this point 11:8:17:910 [DBG][CLEANUP] 11:8:17:910 [DBG]Closing Connection for device <pexpect.spawn instance at 0xb7b373cc> Any tips on what I am missing here? Thanks, -V -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list