python: how to send packets in multi thread and then the thread kill itself

Question

I have a question. I\'d like to send a continuous streams of byte to some host for certain amount of time (let\'s say 1 minute) using python.

Here is my code so far

Answer 1

It's easy to test the scope of killed:

>>> import thread
>>> killed = False
>>> import time
>>> def test():
...  while True:
...   time.sleep(1)
...   if killed:
...     print 'Dead.'
...     break
... 
>>> thread.start_new_thread(test, ())
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>>> time.sleep(3)
>>> killed = True
>>> Dead.