Doug Hellmann has what looks like a similar example using a poison pill (2nd example at) https://pymotw.com/2/multiprocessing/communication.html#multiprocessing-queues Note that join() allows the processes to finish so it you don't care then don't "join()" them. You can also terminate a multiprocessing thread https://pymotw.com/2/multiprocessing/basics.html#terminating-processes -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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