Thread termination

[Teja]

Hi all,

Does any one know how to terminate or kill a thread that is started
with "start_new_thread()" in the middle of its execution?

Any pointers?

Thanks in advance

Teja.

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Hi all,

Does any one know how to terminate or kill a thread that is started
with "start_new_thread()" in the middle of its execution?

Any pointers?

This has been discussed a bazillion times in this NG. The short answer
is: no.

For the long answer: do some googling

Diez

 

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

Hi all,

Does any one know how to terminate or kill a thread that is started
with "start_new_thread()" in the middle of its execution?

Any pointers?

Thanks in advance

Teja.

can't be done from outside without co operation of thread in question.
google this newsgroup
- Hendrik

 

[Nick Craig-Wood]

can't be done from outside without co operation of thread in question.
google this newsgroup

Hopefully google will discover also the thread where the above statement is
proved to be false ;-)

This might be a useful thing to search for...

ctypes.pythonapi.PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc

 

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

Hopefully google will discover also the thread where the above statement is
proved to be false ;-)

This might be a useful thing to search for...

ctypes.pythonapi.PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc

Where were you when we needed you some week or two ago?

I *could* argue that using ctypes is cheating.... - But I wont...

- Hendrik