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Message: [QUOTE="Diez B. Roggisch, post: 1864832"] Yes and no. As you didn't tell us muc about your actual problem, threads might be what you need. But you _can't_ just stop a thread - however, depending on what you do, you can for example regularly check for a flag inside your function and then terminate: class Foo(threading.Thread): def __init__(self): super(Foo, self).__init__() self.setDaemon(True) self.interrupted = False def run(self): while not self.interrupted: do_some_work_but_make_sure_to_come_back_regularly() f = Foo() f.start() time.sleep(10) f.interrupted = True Diez [/QUOTE]