Hello Team, Over due course I've felt the need of a way to kill a thread gracefully, by relieving all occupied resources. A bit of search online shows me that killing a thread depends very much on the underlying platform support, and is something not advised, however I face this problem when one of my devices don't respond and my code keeps waiting indefinitely for an SSH reply. I figured I could find a way out of the stuck situation by launching a thread to do the SSH, and raising an exception from main thread if the SSH thread isn't complete in 20seconds (max time for our devices' login). But since a Django frontend (for my application) won't kill the stuck thread, or even the bareminimum python won't, I'm pretty sure I'll run into resource issue when many users have used the application for non responsive devices. I can get around with a timeout value in the pexpect module I'm using for SSHing, but wanted to check if there's a solution already of getting around the thread issue.
Best, Shakti. -- Sent from Shakti’s iPhone -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
