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How to stop a specific thread in Python 2.7?

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  How to stop a specific thread in Python 2.7? marc nicole <mk1853387@gmail.com> - 2024-09-25 19:24 +0200
    Re: How to stop a specific thread (Posting On Python-List Prohibited) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-09-25 21:42 +0000

#196750 — How to stop a specific thread in Python 2.7?

Hello guys,

I want to know how to kill a specific running thread (say by its id)

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()

I know that set() will kill all running threads, but if there was thread2
as well and I want to kill only thread1?

Thanks!

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#196754 — Re: How to stop a specific thread (Posting On Python-List Prohibited)

On 25 Sep 2024 17:39:37 GMT, Stefan Ram wrote:

> Killing or stopping a thread can cause data corruption and
> unpredictable behavior.

Interesting that even the underlying POSIX thread-terminating call
<https://manpages.debian.org/3/pthread_cancel.3.en.html> allows for the 
concept of “cancellation points”, so that threads can elect to only be 
terminated at well-defined points in their execution.

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