On Apr 26, 2:38 pm, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@nospam.invalid> wrote: > Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> writes: > > Say you are running a thread and you want the power to be able to kill > > it at any time. The thread is either communicating with the rest of > > the program periodically, or it isn't. If it is, then there are ample > > opportunities to tell the thread to terminate itself. If it isn't, > > then you might as well use a separate process which you can kill. > > That's not so satisfying. If you use a separate process, it can't > share Python objects with the main process,
Which is "communicating with the rest of the program periodically". Presumably you have to protect objects to share them? There you go: anytime you try to acquire a lock have the thread check to see whether to abort. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
