python: can't terminate a thread hung in socket.recvfrom() call
- by Dihlofos
Hello, everyone
I cannot get a way to terminate a thread that is hung in a socket.recvfrom() call. For example, ctrl+c that should trigger KeyboardInterrupt exception can't be caught. Here is a script I've used for testing:
from socket import *
from threading import Thread
from sys import exit
class TestThread(Thread):
def __init__(self,host="localhost",port=9999):
self.sock = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_DGRAM)
self.sock.bind((host,port))
super(TestThread,self).__init__()
def run(self):
while True:
try:
recv_data,addr = self.sock.recvfrom(1024)
except (KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit):
sys.exit()
if __name__ == "__main__":
server_thread = TestThread()
server_thread.start()
while True: pass
The main thread (the one that executes infinite loop) exits. However the thread that I explicitly create, keeps hanging in recvfrom().
Please, help me resolve this.
