Py-terminable_thread

Thread subclass / raise exceptions or terminate from another thread

Provides a subclass of Thread with facilities to raise an exception in the thread or terminate the thread from another thread.

terminable_thread provides a subclass of threading.Thread, adding the facility to raise exceptions in the context of the given thread.

This facility is incorporated in the terminable_thread.Thread methods raise_exc, which raises an arbitrary exception, and terminate, which raises SystemExit.

This is not done in an entirely robust manner, and there may be unreported issues with it.

It uses the unexposed PyThreadState_SetAsyncExc function via ctypes to raise an exception for the given thread.

WWW https//github.com/intuited/terminable_thread