Method join

recipes/Python/65448_Thread_Control_Idiom/recipe-65448.py:41–46

Stop the thread

(self,timeout=None)

        print "%s ends" % (self.getName(),)

    def join(self,timeout=None):
        """
        Stop the thread
        """
        self._stopevent.set()
        threading.Thread.join(self, timeout)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    testthread = TestThread()