[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a server that right now runs infinitely. I'd like to make it > die after some amount of time. I was thinking of having a timebomb > thread that starts when the server starts. The timebomb sits, and > sleeps for the specified timeout period (e.g., 5 hours), then does > something to make the main thread terminate. But I'm too inexperienced > to figure out what that thing is. > > Any suggestions? > > > > class TimeBomb( threading.Thread ): > def run(self): > timeout = 5 * 60 * 60 #-- 3 hours > time.sleep( timeout ) > MakeTheRestOfTheStuffDie() > > class MyServer: > def __init__(self): > TimeBomb().run() > serve()
Unfortunately you can raise an exception in another thread. You could tell tell main thread to terminate by setting a flag that is polled by the main thread. You could also try to send a signal to yourself, but I'm not sure what will happen then... -- Benjamin Niemann Email: pink at odahoda dot de WWW: http://www.odahoda.de/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
