On Feb 22, 2005, at 23:08, Bill Mill wrote:
If I recall correctly, there is not a direct way. Instead, you're going to want to have your worker thread check a queue it shares with the parent every so often to see if the supervisor thread has sent a "quit" message to it.
Peace Bill Mill bill.mill at gmail.com
Using "direct" killing methods is not safe, because you never know at which point of its execution you terminate the thread. That's a Bad Thing(TM).
So instead, the Right Thing is to implement an end() method in the object you're using as a thread. That end() method just sets a flag (say, isToTerminate) to True.
Since the thread is running a loop, all you then have to do is have it check the isToTerminate flag at the beginning of each loop. If it's True, exit the loop (thus terminating the thread as it reaches the end of its run() method).
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