On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > In article <mailman.3582.1363853304.2939.python-l...@python.org>, > Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > >> On 3/20/2013 10:03 AM, franzferdinand wrote: >> > Ok, thanks everybody! >> >> Threads are like the Sorcerer's Apprentice. You can start 'em, but you >> cannot stop 'em ;-) > > Of course you can stop threads. Just call _exit(). No more threads!
I don't think Mickey Mouse knew about that call, otherwise he'd have used it. Either that, or he had a completely saturated system and couldn't type anything at the console, so it took the wizard's SSH session to deal with the problem using "kill -9". ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
