There is a solution posted here to create a stoppable thread. However, I am having some problems understanding how to implement this solution.
Using the code...
import threading
class StoppableThread(threading.Thread):
"""Thread class with a stop() method. The thread itself has to check
regularly for the stopped() condition."""
def __init__(self):
super(StoppableThread, self).__init__()
self._stop_event = threading.Event()
def stop(self):
self._stop_event.set()
def stopped(self):
return self._stop_event.is_set()
How can I create a thread that runs a function that prints "Hello" to the terminal every 1 second. After 5 seconds I use the .stop() to stop the looping function/thread.
Again I am having troubles understanding how to implement this stopping solution, here is what I have so far.
import threading
import time
class StoppableThread(threading.Thread):
"""Thread class with a stop() method. The thread itself has to check
regularly for the stopped() condition."""
def __init__(self):
super(StoppableThread, self).__init__()
self._stop_event = threading.Event()
def stop(self):
self._stop_event.set()
def stopped(self):
return self._stop_event.is_set()
def funct():
while not testthread.stopped():
time.sleep(1)
print("Hello")
testthread = StoppableThread()
testthread.start()
time.sleep(5)
testthread.stop()
Code above creates the thread testthread which can be stopped by the testthread.stop() command. From what I understand this is just creating an empty thread... Is there a way I can create a thread that runs funct() and the thread will end when I use .stop(). Basically I do not know how to implement the StoppableThread class to run the funct() function as a thread.
Example of a regular threaded function...
import threading
import time
def example():
x = 0
while x < 5:
time.sleep(1)
print("Hello")
x = x + 1
t = threading.Thread(target=example)
t.start()
t.join()
#example of a regular threaded function.
解决方案
There are a couple of problems with how you are using the code in your original example. First of all, you are not passing any constructor arguments to the base constructor. This is a problem because, as you can see in the plain-Thread example, constructor arguments are often necessary. You should rewrite StoppableThread.__init__ as follows:
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
self._stop_event = threading.Event()
Since you are using Python 3, you do not need to provide arguments to super. Now you can do
testthread = StoppableThread(target=funct)
This is still not an optimal solution, because funct uses an external variable, testthread to stop itself. While this is OK-ish for a tiny example like yours, using global variables like that normally causes a huge maintenance burden and you don't want to do it. A much better solution would be to extend the generic StoppableThread class for your particular task, so you can access self properly:
class MyTask(StoppableThread):
def run(self):
while not self.stopped():
time.sleep(1)
print("Hello")
testthread = MyTask()
testthread.start()
time.sleep(5)
testthread.stop()
If you absolutely do not want to extend StoppableThread, you can use the current_thread function in your task in preference to reading a global variable:
def funct():
while not current_thread().stopped():
time.sleep(1)
print("Hello")
testthread = StoppableThread(target=funct)
testthread.start()
sleep(5)
testthread.stop()