How to move SimpleSocket server into a background process

Question

I have a simple socketServer that works perfectly on the main thread.

#Server PORT
PORT = 8020
#reassign variables
Handler = Server #this is a S         


        

Answer 1

You might need threading/_thread

def server():
    ....

import _thread
_thread.start_new_thread(server, ())

This basically starts the server function on a different thread.

EDIT: In this case in your def server(): you a global variable threadIsRunning, if this is valued to True it should continue, but if it is valued to False run thread.exit() this should all be in some sort of loop.