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# Class InterruptableThread

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            object --+
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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

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_raise(self, exception_type=ThreadInterrupt) | source code
interrupt(self, exception_type=ThreadInterrupt) | source code
kill(self) | source code
Inherited from `threading.Thread`: `__init__`, `__repr__`, `daemon`, `getName`, `ident`, `isAlive`, `isDaemon`, `is_alive`, `join`, `name`, `run`, `setDaemon`, `setName`, `start` Inherited from `threading.Thread` (private): `_block`, `_reset_internal_locks`, `_set_daemon`, `_set_ident` Inherited from `threading._Verbose` (private): `_note`