linkchecker/linkcheck/threader.py

# -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
# Copyright (C) 2000-2014 Bastian Kleineidam
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"""
Support for managing threads.
"""
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):
        """Store stop event."""
        super(StoppableThread, self).__init__()
        self._stop = threading.Event()

    def stop (self):
        """Set stop event."""
        self._stop.set()

    def stopped (self, timeout=None):
        """Return True if stop event is set."""
        return self._stop.wait(timeout)