On 5/29/19, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > In the OP's example code, with just one thread started, the easiest > solution is to use > > y.start() > y.join() > > to block the main thread. That will, at least, let the try/except catch the > interrupt. It does not, however, kill the sub-thread.
join() can't be interrupted by Ctrl+C in Windows. To work around this, we can join a thread with a short timeout in a loop. If we're managing queued work items with a thread pool, note that Queue.join doesn't support a timeout. In this case we need to poll empty() in a loop with a short time.sleep(). Or we can let the main thread block and use ctypes to install a console control handler that sets a flag that tells child threads to exit. Windows calls the control handler in a new thread. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
