What is the process to kill a particular thread in python

Question

Hi guys. For my school project, I have created a game that kinda uses multithreading. Now when a character dies, I want to kill off that thread. Is it possible to terminate a running thread without setting/checking any flags/semaphores/etc.?

Answer 1

A multiprocessing.Process can p.terminate()

In the cases where I want to kill a thread, but do not want to use flags/locks/signals/semaphores/events/whatever, I promote the threads to full blown processes. For code that makes use of just a few threads the overhead is not that bad.

E.g. this comes in handy to easily terminate helper "threads" which execute blocking I/O

The conversion is trivial: In related code replace all threading.Thread with multiprocessing.Processand all queue.Queue with multiprocessing.Queue and add the required calls of p.terminate() to your parent process which wants to kill its child p

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