How to close a thread from within

Question

For every client connecting to my server I spawn a new thread  like this     Create a new client c   Client self server accept    globQueue globQueueIndex   globQueueIndex  serverQueue      Start it c start      And thread it self threads append c    Now  I know I can close all the threads using this code         Loop through all the threads and close  join  them     for c in self threads          c join     But how can I close the thread from within that thread

User · Accepted Answer

When you start a thread  it begins executing a function you give it  if you re extending threading Thread  the function will be run     To end the thread  just return from that function   According to this  you can also call thread exit    which will throw an exception that will end the thread silently

User · Answer

If you want force stop your thread  thread  Thread stop   For me works very good

User · Answer

A little late  but I use a  is running variable to tell the thread when I want to close  It s easy to use  just implement a stop   inside your thread class   def stop self     self  is running   False   And in run   just loop on while self  is running

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How about sys exit   from the module sys    If sys exit   is executed from within a thread it will close that thread only   This answer here talks about that  Why does sys exit   not exit when called inside a thread in Python

[python] How to close a thread from within?

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