On Mar 26, 10:53 am, Thomas Dybdahl Ahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I'm writing an application that connects to the internet. > Something like this: > > for res in socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, socket.SOCK_STREAM): > af, socktype, proto, canonname, sa = res > try: > self.sock = socket.socket(af, socktype, proto) > > Now if the user press the cancel button, I'd like the connection to > imidiatly stop. I run > self.sock.shutdown(socket.SHUT_RDWR) > self.sock.close() > Dunno if they are both nessesary. I normaly use only the first, but it > makes no difference to use both. > > If python is at the actual connection in socket.socket( this work fine, > but if python is at calling socket.getaddrinfo(, it doesn't stop. > > I also can't kill the thread, as it is afaik not a possibility in python. > Is there any other way to do this?
This is addressed to some degree on a wxPython wiki at: http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/LongRunningTasks I think you can also use the join() method. I've also heard that if you know the pid, you can kill it, but that's not always a clean way of accomplishing the task. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list