How can I stop the whole code inside a thread-CodePudding

I am using selenium and threading, and I have a funcion check_browser_running to check if the browser is still running or not:

def check_browser_running()
  while True:
    try:
      driver.title
    except WebDriverException:
      print("DRIVER WAS CLOSED")

then I run this function in a thread to let other code running:

th = threading.Thread(target=check_browser_running)
th.start()

Last thing is, I have a loop function to stop the code from running, because if any error happened in my code, I want the code to stop instead of exiting:

def stop():
  while True:
    pass

What I want is that how can I stop the code from running using the stop() function through a function that is running a thread?? Because if I called stop() in a thread this will not stop the main code.

CodePudding user response：

Either you can do something like this: (Recommended)

import threading

running = True

def thread():
    global running

    while running:
        if(some_event):
            stop()

def stop():
    global running

    running = False

th = threading.Thread(target=thread)
th.start()

Where you run a while loop with a variable as a flag you can set to false. To end the loop.

Or a tackier solution where you just get the pid of the python program and kill it.

import os, signal

def stop():
    os.kill(os.getpid(), signal.SIGTERM)

Which will kill the entire program regardless if you call it from withing a thread.