[wxPython-users] How to kill python thread

[Andrea Gavana]

Hi Naish,

On Dec 3, 2007 11:50 PM, Naishadh shroff. wrote:
> hi,
> I just developed one application. The front end is in wxpython and back end
> is python script. The script is calculating some ascii file and generating
> it into the jpeg image. The script is depends on the input given. So the
> script might last for 1 hours also. My program has two separate thread one
> for GUI and another for python script. My gui is initiating the python
> script . It is going well. But there is button on GUI that stops the backend
> script. Whenever i press this stop button my script is not stopping. And i
> have to restart the whole program. I dont know how to kill the python thread
> from the button.
> So can any body tell me how to kill the python thread programmatically?

You might try to borrow some idea from this Wiki page:

http://wiki.wxpython.org/LongRunningTasks

HTH.

Andrea.

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