process/thread instances and attributes

[James Mills]

Hey all,

I have this concept I'm working on and here is
the code... Problem is if you run this it doesn't
terminate. I believe you can terminate it in the
main process by calling a.stop() But I can't find a
way for it to self terminate, ie: self.stop() As indicated
by the code...

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#!/usr/bin/env python

import os
from time import sleep

from threading import Thread as _Thread
from multiprocessing import Process as _Process

class Process(object):

def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super(Process, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

self.running = False
self.process = _Process(target=self._run)

def _run(self):
thread = _Thread(target=self.run)
thread.start()

try:
while self.running and thread.isAlive():
try:
sleep(1)
print "!"
except SystemExit:
self.running = False
break
except KeyboardInterrupt:
self.running = False
break
finally:
thread.join()

def start(self):
self.running = True
self.process.start()

def run(self):
pass

def stop(self):
print "%s: Stopping ..." % self
self.running = False

class A(Process):

def run(self):
while self.running:
sleep(5)
self.stop()
a = A()
a.start()

while a.running:
sleep(1)
print "."

print "DONE"