Interrupt/kill threads w/exception

[oliverbock]

BPO	1509060

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title = 'Interrupt/kill threads w/exception'
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[oliverbock]

When unsophisticated (but not evil) users write Python
macros, they occasionally write infinite loops. It
would be nice if it was possible to interrupt threads
to break these loops. The safety of rasing an
exception in another thread was noted in

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=452266&group_id=5470

Anton Wilson wrote a patch for this some time ago:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-February/148999.html

Note that this won't help if the thread is blocked on I/O.

[josiahcarlson]

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It would be nice to be able to kill runaway threads, though
I have no comment on the patch that Anton Wilson offers
(which will no doubt need to be updated for more recent
Pythons).

[iritkatriel]

Closing as this is 15 years old, both links in the original post are no longer leading to anything, and it's not clear what the relevance of this is now.