2013-11-02 Stop a thread in Python
I was writing a simple GUI in Python, a button start to start a function from a thread, another one to stop the execution. I then realized my program did not stop.
import threading, time
class MyThread(threading.Thread):
def run(self):
while True:
time.sleep(1)
th = MyThread()
th.start()
There are two ways to avoid that issue. The first one is to set up daemon to True.
th = MyThread() th.daemon = True th.start()
The second way is to use a kind of hidden function _stop(not documented). But this function might disappear in the next version of python.
th = MyThread() th.start() th._stop()
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Xavier Dupré
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