On Jan 6, 7:48 am, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tarun wrote: > > Can anyone help me with a simple code through which the main thread can > > kill the worker thread it started. > > it cannot. threads cannot be killed from the "outside". > > </F>
The only way to "kill" a thread is to have the spawned thread have some kind of passed in argument which will trigger it to shut down. You could have the thread read a file or file-like object periodically (like a timer) and if it meets some condition, have the thread quit. It's kind of like a subscription process. The thread subscribes to the main program and can accept signals. I suggest that the OP read the docs on threads: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-threading.html Of special interest to this user: http://docs.python.org/lib/condition-objects.html I have messed with KillProcName, a PyWin32 script with limited success. There's also the following snippet which is Windows only and works for some processes and not others (i.e. unreliable): subprocess.Popen('taskkill /s %s /im %s' % (computer_id, proc)) Hopefully I didn't muddy the waters or write something too off the mark. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
