Close listening socket in python thread

Question

I have a problem trying to learn about sockets for network communication. I have made a simple thread that listens for connections and creates processes for connecting clien

Answer 1

One way to get the thread to close seems to be to make a connection to the socket, thus continuing the thread to completion.

def stop(self):
    self.running = False
    socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, 
                  socket.SOCK_STREAM).connect( (self.hostname, self.port))
    self.socket.close()

This works, but it still feels like it might not be optimal...