Class InterruptableThread

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threading._Verbose --+    
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      threading.Thread --+
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                        InterruptableThread

A thread class that supports being interrupted. Target functions should catch ThreadInterrupt to perform cleanup.

Code is a somewhat modified version of Bluebird75's solution found at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/323972/is-there-any-way-to-kill-a-thread-in-python