It would be nice to be able to kill threads anytime you wanted, there are solutions to this but are not part of the Python library and I didn’t yet get a chance to try them… Actually there is only one promising solution to this.
The other thing I would love to have in Python is to be able to call popen with a second parameter which is a timeout, That is (obviously) popen would give up and return if the call was taking more than x number of seconds…
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