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How to force main thread to close if a sub thread is alive in python? sys.exit() and exit() appears to wait for sub thread to complete?

I have a python script that starts a process using multiprocessing Process class. Inside that process I start a thread with an infinite loop, and I simulate an exception on the main thread by doing ...

I'm looking to terminate some threads after a certain amount of time. These threads will be running an infinite while loop and during this time they can stall for a random, large amount of time. The ...

I'm a little confused about what setting a thread to be a daemon means. The documentation says this: A thread can be flagged as a “daemon thread”. The significance of this flag is that the ...

I am a newbie in python programming, what I understand is that a process can be a daemon, but a thread in a daemon mode, I couldn't understand the usecase of this, I would request the python gurus to ...

It has been itching me for a long time to know what the historical reason for calling daemon programs or threads "daemon" Lat: daemon, latin version of the Greek "δαίμων" ("...

I was really confused by sys.exit() in python. In python documentation, it says "Exit from Python"; does that mean when sys.exit() is called in a python program, the process will exit? If so, the code ...

from threading import Thread class MyClass: #... def method2(self): while True: try: hashes = self.target.bssid.replace(':','') + '.pixie' ...

I have found a code creating a timeout function here, which does not seem to work. The complete test code is below: def timeout(func, args=(), kwargs={}, timeout_duration=1, default=None): import ...

I don't understand why "while True:" is needed in below example import os import sys import subprocess import time from threading import Thread from Queue import Queue def worker(): ...

I just wrote a task queue in Python whose job is to limit the number of tasks that are run at one time. This is a little different than Queue.Queue because instead of limiting how many items can be in ...

I have a function I'm calling every 5 seconds like such: def check_buzz(super_buzz_words): print 'Checking buzz' t = Timer(5.0, check_buzz, args=(super_buzz_words,)) t.dameon = True t....

If I create a daemon thread in Python (3.6+) and that daemon thread is finished execution, are its resources automatically freed up, or is it a memory leak? I looked around couldn't really find the ...

I wrote the code for a simple TCP client: from socket import * # Configurações de conexão do servidor # O nome do servidor pode ser o endereço de # IP ou o domínio (ola.python.net) serverHost = '...

Though I googled and got a lot of result, but they are not what I want. My main code as below def main: start = datetime.now() browser = webdriver.PhantomJS() download() browser.quit()...