Cannot kill Python script with Ctrl-C

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Ctrl+C terminates the main thread, but because your threads aren’t in daemon mode, they keep running, and that keeps the process alive. We can make them daemons:

f = FirstThread()
f.daemon = True
f.start()
s = SecondThread()
s.daemon = True
s.start()

But then there’s another problem – once the main thread has started your threads, there’s nothing else for it to do. So it exits, and the threads are destroyed instantly. So let’s keep the main thread alive:

import time
while True:
    time.sleep(1)

Now it will keep print ‘first’ and ‘second’ until you hit Ctrl+C.

Edit: as commenters have pointed out, the daemon threads may not get a chance to clean up things like temporary files. If you need that, then catch the KeyboardInterrupt on the main thread and have it co-ordinate cleanup and shutdown. But in many cases, letting daemon threads die suddenly is probably good enough.

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