How do I abort a socket.recv() from another thread in Python

Question

I have a main thread that waits for connection. It spawns client threads that will echo the response from the client (telnet in this case). But say that I want to close down all

Answer 1

I found a solution using timeouts. That will interrupt the recv (actually before the timeout has expired which is nice):

# Echo server program
import socket
from threading import Thread
import time


class ClientThread(Thread):
    def __init__(self, clientSocke):
        Thread.__init__(self)
        self.clientSocket = clientSocket

    def run(self):
        while 1:
            try:
                data = self.clientSocket.recv(1024)
                print "Got data: ", data
                self.clientSocket.send(data)
            except socket.timeout: 
                # If it was a timeout, we want to continue with recv
                continue
            except:
                break

        self.clientSocket.close()

HOST = ''
PORT = 6000
serverSocket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
serverSocket.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
serverSocket.bind((HOST, PORT))
serverSocket.listen(1)

clientSocket, addr = serverSocket.accept()
clientSocket.settimeout(1)

print 'Got a new connection from: ', addr
clientThread = ClientThread(clientSocket)
clientThread.start()

# Close it down immediatly 
clientSocket.close()