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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: How to terminate the function that runs every n seconds
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On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 11:34:54 +0200, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
declaimed the following:

>Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>:
>
>> 	The main thing to consider is that "killing" a thread doesn't
>> work well in Python. Instead the thread has to check for some signal
>> telling it to quit.
>
>Alas, a thread can't check anything because it's blocked by I/O.
>
	My response to that then is: design the thread's I/O so that it is not
blocking... On Linux, maybe a timed select(); Windows? short sleeps around
a non-blocking check for available data... (if console I/O, msvcrt.kbhit();
otherwise may need some other library function to put a time-out on the
I/O)

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