Question

I have a code where in I have two types of threads. 3 threads are spawned from the second. I wanted to know if there is a function which I can call, which will terminate the three spawned threads of the second type but still keeping the first one running.

Answer 1

A common solution is to have a global variable that the threads check if they should terminate or not.

Edit: An example of one way of doing it:

class MyThread(Thread):
    def __init__(self):
        self.keep_running = True

    def run(self):
        while self.keep_running:
            # Do stuff

my_thread = MyThread()
my_thread.start()

# Do some other stuff

my_thread.keep_running = False
my_thread.join()