Is it possible to kill the parent thread from within a child thread in python?

Question

I am using Python 3.5.2 on windows.

I would like to run a python script but guarantee that it will not take more than N seconds. If it does ta

Answer 1

You can use _thread.interrupt_main (this module is called thread in Python 2.7):

import time, threading, _thread

def long_running():
    while True:
        print('Hello')

def stopper(sec):
    time.sleep(sec)
    print('Exiting...')
    _thread.interrupt_main()

threading.Thread(target = stopper, args = (2, )).start()

long_running()