This appears to be a way:

http://www.dlevel.com/blogs/alex/20

Cheers
kromakey

On 21 Oct, 18:05, Adam Atlas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 21 Oct 2007, at 12:53, bubblboy wrote:
>
> > (for example: make a thread, start it, wait a number of seconds and if
> > it's not done kill it).
>
> I've had that thought before, but is it actually possible to kill a  
> thread from the outside? I have yet to find a way to do that.
>
> I suppose you could use something like sys.settrace and have the  
> tracing function intercept some kill-flag and thereupon do thread.exit
> ()... but settrace is a magical CPython-specific thing and it would  
> also make it much slower, so that's probably not a good idea. Any  
> other possibilities?


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