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Author gvanrossum
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(1) I think subclassing SystemExit can work.

(2) But the difference is that killing the main thread
without giving it a chance to clean up is worse than killing
another thread.

Does anybody want to write a PEP on thread cancellation? It
sure looks like a hairy issue!
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