> Do you want to fix the symptom, fix the problem, or finish a school > assignment? To do the first, make a global variable that contains the time > you want to stop making new threads, and conditionally test it before > calling threading.Timer >
I firstly apologise for multiple posts and thanks for the reply . I was actually in hurry to complete my assignment and there was no way to figure out what was going wrong !! My assignment was to write a subroutine that run itself every n minutes and terminate before the main thread completes. I thought threading.Timer helped me achieve this but timer.cancel() didn't help me terminate the timer . > Something like > quit_time = timer.time() + 4 > Thanks for the above hint, I will try this and get back to you > Note that neither Timer nor sleep makes any promises about how accurately it > matches the requested time. Sure will keep this in mind Regards , Ganesh -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
