Cantankerous Old Git wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I have a server that right now runs infinitely. I'd like to make it >> die after some amount of time. > > The proper way to do it is to have the timer set a flag that the other > threads check regularly. The threads can then clean up and exit asap. > > The dirty way, which can leave corrupt half-written files and other > nasties, is something like sys.exit().
sys.exit() won't help you if your server is running in the main thread, nor if your server thread is not marked as a daemon, but that does raise another possibility. Instead of doing serve() in the main thread, spawn off a child thread to do the serving, and call setDaemon(True) on it. Then the _main_ thread can do sys.exit() and the server thread will be terminated (somewhat messily perhaps) -- even if it is blocked in an accept() call or some other external blocking call. -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
