How terminate Python thread without checking flag continuously

Question

class My_Thread(threading.Thread):

    def __init__(self):
        threading.Thread.__init__(self)

    def run(self):
        print \"Starting \" + self.name
              


        

Answer 1

Python threads are not easy to kill, you can use the multiprocessing module (http://docs.python.org/2/library/multiprocessing.html) which is almost the same and it has terminate() function for killing a processes.

Here is a little example, taken from the python docs.

>>> import multiprocessing, time, signal
>>> p = multiprocessing.Process(target=time.sleep, args=(1000,))
>>> print p, p.is_alive()
 False
>>> p.start()
>>> print p, p.is_alive()
 True
>>> p.terminate()
>>> time.sleep(0.1)
>>> print p, p.is_alive()
 False
>>> p.exitcode == -signal.SIGTERM
True