Re: How to stop a specific thread in Python 2.7?

On 25Sep2024 19:24, marc nicole <mk1853387@gmail.com> wrote:

I want to know how to kill a specific running thread (say by its id)
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for now I run and kill a thread like the following:
# start thread
thread1 = threading.Thread(target= self.some_func(), args=( ...,), )
thread1.start()
# kill the thread
event_thread1 = threading.Event()
event_thread1.set()
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I know that set() will kill all running threads, but if there was thread2
as well and I want to kill only thread1?

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No, `set()` doesn't kill a thread at all. It sets the `Event`, and each
thread must be checking that event regularly, and quitting if it becomes
set.
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You just need a per-thred vent instead of a single Event for all the
threads.
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Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs@cskk.id.au>
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