Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> added the comment: Agreed with Brian. There is generally no reliable way to terminate another thread or process without cooperation from said thread or process. Especially in the case of threads, terminating a thread while leaving the process alive may leave some resources (including Python interpreter resources) in a consistent state. Admittedly, terminating a process could be implemented using kill().
The solution is to write your long-running task so that it can be cancelled using a synchronization object (such as an Event). ---------- nosy: +pitrou status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <[email protected]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11724> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
