On 09/04/2019 14:08, Shakti Kumar wrote:
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.
Fundamentally, don't do that. Never let a thread wait indefinitely on something you don't have control over. Use timeouts, and think hard about your recovery strategies.
Killing and restarting a thread is always going to be a risky business, and will leave your system less stable. Don't do it unless you have no choice (and if you think you have no choice, you're probably wrong!).
-- Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
