Source code for linkcheck.threader

# Copyright (C) 2000-2014 Bastian Kleineidam
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"""
Support for managing threads.
"""
import threading


[docs] class StoppableThread(threading.Thread): """Thread class with a stop() method. The thread itself has to check regularly for the stopped() condition.""" def __init__(self): """Store stop event.""" super().__init__() self._stopper = threading.Event()
[docs] def stop(self): """Set stop event.""" self._stopper.set()
[docs] def stopped(self, timeout=None): """Return True if stop event is set.""" return self._stopper.wait(timeout)