Python - How can I implement a 'stoppable' thread?

Question

There is a solution posted here to create a stoppable thread. However, I am having some problems understanding how to implement this solution.

Using the code...

Answer 1

Inspired by above solution I created a small library, ants, for this problem.

Example

from ants import worker

@worker
def do_stuff():
    ...
    thread code
    ...

do_stuff.start()
...
do_stuff.stop()

In above example do_stuff will run in a separate thread being called in a while 1: loop

You can also have triggering events , e.g. in above replace do_stuff.start() with do_stuff.start(lambda: time.sleep(5)) and you will have it trigger every 5:th second

The library is very new and work is ongoing on GitHub https://github.com/fa1k3n/ants.git