.net has a public thread.abort function which allows this, it will result in a interruptedexception on the aborted thread. I think there are ways to do this in

.net has a public thread.abort function which allows this, it will result in a interruptedexception on the aborted thread. I think there are ways to do this in java and python also although I know the official stance on thread.abort from the python maintainers is no way in hell.