Stopping a python thread running an Infinite Loop

Question

I am new to python programming. I am trying to make a GUI with stoppable threads. I borrowed some code from https://stackoverflow.com/a/325528

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Answer 1

I think you missed the 'The thread itself has to check regularly for the stopped() condition' bit of that documentation.

Your thread needs to run like this:

while not self.stopped():
    # do stuff

rather than while true. Note that it is still only going to exit at the 'start' of a loop, when it checks the condition. If whatever is in that loop is long-running, that may cause unexpected delays.