只是建立在@SCB的想法(这正是我所需要的)，创建一个KillableThread子类与自定义函数:

from threading import Thread, Event

class KillableThread(Thread):
    def __init__(self, sleep_interval=1, target=None, name=None, args=(), kwargs={}):
        super().__init__(None, target, name, args, kwargs)
        self._kill = Event()
        self._interval = sleep_interval
        print(self._target)

    def run(self):
        while True:
            # Call custom function with arguments
            self._target(*self._args)

            # If no kill signal is set, sleep for the interval,
            # If kill signal comes in while sleeping, immediately
            #  wake up and handle
            is_killed = self._kill.wait(self._interval)
            if is_killed:
                break

        print("Killing Thread")

    def kill(self):
        self._kill.set()

if __name__ == '__main__':

    def print_msg(msg):
        print(msg)

    t = KillableThread(10, print_msg, args=("hello world"))
    t.start()
    time.sleep(6)
    print("About to kill thread")
    t.kill()

自然地，就像@SBC一样，线程不会等待运行一个新的循环来停止。在这个例子中，你会看到“kill Thread”消息紧跟在“About to kill Thread”之后，而不是等待4秒钟线程完成(因为我们已经睡了6秒了)。

KillableThread构造函数中的第二个参数是您的自定义函数(print_msg)。Args参数是在调用函数(("hello world"))时使用的参数。

Python版本:3.8

使用守护线程来执行我们想要的，如果我们想要终止守护线程，我们只需要让父线程退出，然后系统就会终止父线程创建的守护线程。

还支持协程和协程函数。

def main():
    start_time = time.perf_counter()
    t1 = ExitThread(time.sleep, (10,), debug=False)
    t1.start()
    time.sleep(0.5)
    t1.exit()
    try:
        print(t1.result_future.result())
    except concurrent.futures.CancelledError:
        pass
    end_time = time.perf_counter()
    print(f"time cost {end_time - start_time:0.2f}")

下面是ExitThread源代码

import concurrent.futures
import threading
import typing
import asyncio


class _WorkItem(object):
    """ concurrent\futures\thread.py

    """

    def __init__(self, future, fn, args, kwargs, *, debug=None):
        self._debug = debug
        self.future = future
        self.fn = fn
        self.args = args
        self.kwargs = kwargs

    def run(self):
        if self._debug:
            print("ExitThread._WorkItem run")
        if not self.future.set_running_or_notify_cancel():
            return

        try:
            coroutine = None
            if asyncio.iscoroutinefunction(self.fn):
                coroutine = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
            elif asyncio.iscoroutine(self.fn):
                coroutine = self.fn
            if coroutine is None:
                result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
            else:
                result = asyncio.run(coroutine)
            if self._debug:
                print("_WorkItem done")
        except BaseException as exc:
            self.future.set_exception(exc)
            # Break a reference cycle with the exception 'exc'
            self = None
        else:
            self.future.set_result(result)


class ExitThread:
    """ Like a stoppable thread

    Using coroutine for target then exit before running may cause RuntimeWarning.

    """

    def __init__(self, target: typing.Union[typing.Coroutine, typing.Callable] = None
                 , args=(), kwargs={}, *, daemon=None, debug=None):
        #
        self._debug = debug
        self._parent_thread = threading.Thread(target=self._parent_thread_run, name="ExitThread_parent_thread"
                                               , daemon=daemon)
        self._child_daemon_thread = None
        self.result_future = concurrent.futures.Future()
        self._workItem = _WorkItem(self.result_future, target, args, kwargs, debug=debug)
        self._parent_thread_exit_lock = threading.Lock()
        self._parent_thread_exit_lock.acquire()
        self._parent_thread_exit_lock_released = False  # When done it will be True
        self._started = False
        self._exited = False
        self.result_future.add_done_callback(self._release_parent_thread_exit_lock)

    def _parent_thread_run(self):
        self._child_daemon_thread = threading.Thread(target=self._child_daemon_thread_run
                                                     , name="ExitThread_child_daemon_thread"
                                                     , daemon=True)
        self._child_daemon_thread.start()
        # Block manager thread
        self._parent_thread_exit_lock.acquire()
        self._parent_thread_exit_lock.release()
        if self._debug:
            print("ExitThread._parent_thread_run exit")

    def _release_parent_thread_exit_lock(self, _future):
        if self._debug:
            print(f"ExitThread._release_parent_thread_exit_lock {self._parent_thread_exit_lock_released} {_future}")
        if not self._parent_thread_exit_lock_released:
            self._parent_thread_exit_lock_released = True
            self._parent_thread_exit_lock.release()

    def _child_daemon_thread_run(self):
        self._workItem.run()

    def start(self):
        if self._debug:
            print(f"ExitThread.start {self._started}")
        if not self._started:
            self._started = True
            self._parent_thread.start()

    def exit(self):
        if self._debug:
            print(f"ExitThread.exit exited: {self._exited} lock_released: {self._parent_thread_exit_lock_released}")
        if self._parent_thread_exit_lock_released:
            return
        if not self._exited:
            self._exited = True
            if not self.result_future.cancel():
                if self.result_future.running():
                    self.result_future.set_exception(concurrent.futures.CancelledError())

正如其他人所提到的，规范是设置一个停止标志。对于一些轻量级的东西(没有Thread的子类化，没有全局变量)，lambda回调是一个选项。(注意if stop()中的括号。)

import threading
import time

def do_work(id, stop):
    print("I am thread", id)
    while True:
        print("I am thread {} doing something".format(id))
        if stop():
            print("  Exiting loop.")
            break
    print("Thread {}, signing off".format(id))


def main():
    stop_threads = False
    workers = []
    for id in range(0,3):
        tmp = threading.Thread(target=do_work, args=(id, lambda: stop_threads))
        workers.append(tmp)
        tmp.start()
    time.sleep(3)
    print('main: done sleeping; time to stop the threads.')
    stop_threads = True
    for worker in workers:
        worker.join()
    print('Finis.')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

将print()替换为始终刷新的pr()函数(sys.stdout.flush())可以提高shell输出的精度。

(仅在Windows/Eclipse/Python3.3上测试)

如果您显式地调用time.sleep()作为线程的一部分(比如轮询一些外部服务)，对Phillipe方法的改进是在sleep()的任何地方使用事件的wait()方法中的超时。

例如:

import threading

class KillableThread(threading.Thread):
    def __init__(self, sleep_interval=1):
        super().__init__()
        self._kill = threading.Event()
        self._interval = sleep_interval

    def run(self):
        while True:
            print("Do Something")

            # If no kill signal is set, sleep for the interval,
            # If kill signal comes in while sleeping, immediately
            #  wake up and handle
            is_killed = self._kill.wait(self._interval)
            if is_killed:
                break

        print("Killing Thread")

    def kill(self):
        self._kill.set()

然后运行它

t = KillableThread(sleep_interval=5)
t.start()
# Every 5 seconds it prints:
#: Do Something
t.kill()
#: Killing Thread

使用wait()而不是sleep()ing和定期检查事件的优点是，您可以在更长的睡眠间隔中编程，线程几乎立即停止(否则您将处于sleep()ing)，并且在我看来，处理退出的代码明显更简单。

最简单的方法是:

from threading import Thread
from time import sleep

def do_something():
    global thread_work
    while thread_work:
        print('doing something')
        sleep(5)
    print('Thread stopped')

thread_work = True
Thread(target=do_something).start()
sleep(5)
thread_work = False

使用setDaemon(True)启动子线程。

def bootstrap(_filename):
    mb = ModelBootstrap(filename=_filename) # Has many Daemon threads. All get stopped automatically when main thread is stopped.

t = threading.Thread(target=bootstrap,args=('models.conf',))
t.setDaemon(False)

while True:
    t.start()
    time.sleep(10) # I am just allowing the sub-thread to run for 10 sec. You can listen on an event to stop execution.
    print('Thread stopped')
    break