On Sat, 2 Sep 2017 08:53 pm, Steve D'Aprano wrote: > I want to delay a computation and then print it, in the REPL (interactive > interpreter). I have something like this: [...] > The other problem is that if I exit the REPL while a Timer is still active, it > freezes until the time has run before exiting. I know you can't kill a thread > from the main thread, but is there a way for the Timer to see that the > interpreter is shutting down and shut itself down?
Oh! I see Timer objects have a cancel method. So I just need an atexit callback function that calls cancel to each of the Timer threads. -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
