I use PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc to stop a python thread but there are
situations when the thread doesn't stop and continues executing
normally. After some debugging, I realized that the problem is that
PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc was called when the thread was inside a
native extension, that for some reason calls PyErr_Clear. That code
happens to be inside boost::python.
I do need to stop the thread from executing Python code as soon as
possible (as soon as it returns from a native function is also
acceptable).
Because we have embedded Python's VM in our product, I'm thinking of
modifying PyErr_Clear() to return immediately if the thread was
stopped (we determine if the thread should stop using our own
functions).
Example:
void PyErr_Clear(void)
{
if (!stop_executing_this_thread())
PyErr_Restore(NULL, NULL, NULL);
}
Does anybody see any problem with this approach ?, Does anybody have a
cleaner/better solution ?
I've allready posted this in comp.lang.python a couple of days ago but
got no answers, that's why I'm posting here, coz I think the only ones
that could give me a solution/workaround are Python core developers.
Thanks a lot.
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