Is there a way I can use threads to quit the main python process? In brief, I have a python script that starts when my computer starts. It chooses a random wallpaper background out of a specified path, and sets it as the desktop wallpaper. It also hooks some windows hot keys so I can cycle through all the wallpapers, or choose another one, or quit it, by using F8, F7 and F6 respectively. However, I would quite like the script to self-terminate if no user input is received after X seconds. At first this seemed simple - Create a separate thread that used time.sleep() to sleep for X seconds, then run a callback. The callback would check a simple Boolean (Set to True if a hot key is pressed, set to False at start of the script), and if the Boolean was False, it would simply run exit(), and this would close the window.
However, it is not that simple. The callback and the thread work fine, but the exit() seems to close the THREAD, not the main process. I have tried sys.exit(), and some other forms I found on the Internet (Raising exceptions and setting the thread to a daemon), but none seemed to close the actual interpreter. I tried using the .join() function, but this called an exception that told me the thread could not be joined. Here is my threaded_test.py code: http://pastebin.com/f6060d15a Thanks for reading, ~Tom
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