If you try to run the code below and stop it with ctrl+C, it will lock because atexit is never reached.
Antoine proposed to add a way to have one atexit() per thread, so we can call some cleanup code when the app shuts down and there are running threads.
{{{
from wsgiref.simple_server import make_server
import threading
import time
import atexit
class Work(threading.Thread):
def __init__(self):
threading.Thread.__init__(self)
self.running = False
def run(self):
self.running = True
while self.running:
time.sleep(.2)
def stop(self):
self.running = False
self.join()
worker = Work()
def shutdown():
# bye-bye
print 'bye bye'
worker.stop()
atexit.register(shutdown)
def hello_world_app(environ, start_response):
status = '200 OK' # HTTP Status
headers = [('Content-type', 'text/plain')]
start_response(status, headers)
return ["Hello World"]
def main():
worker.start()
return make_server('', 8000, hello_world_app)
if __name__ == '__main__':
server = main()
server.serve_forever()
}}}