On 2012年3月30日 10:31:26 -0700 (PDT) Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka at gmail.com> wrote: >> > I propose to add Thread.interrupt() function. >> Does the new > http://docs.python.org/dev/library/signal.html#signal.pthread_kill help in > any way? Not in any way, no, because Python only executes its own signal handlers in the main thread, even when the signal was received in another thread. Therefore, with interpreter threads, pthread_kill()'s only point is to make a running system call return with EINTR. Regards Antoine.