program will not exit while thread is running

[codeLoad]

I am making a simple http server (yes I know Python already has the modules to do so) and when I get a request I create a new thread to handle it. Now, when I try to use ^C to exit in the shell, the program keeps going. What do I need to do to kill this program w/o having to resort to actually using 'kill'?

[codeLoad]

Well, I found that I can catch a KeyboardInterrupt in main() and use subprocess.call() to call kill on a linux system. Not an elegant solution I suppose.

[Root23]

I wish I could help you, but I'm just getting started with Python.

I'm sure someone will respond soon though. I'm guessing a lot of people are on here during the work week, and not as much on weekends.

[codeLoad]

I've been using python for a few months now, it's just the threads that I have little experience with. Hopefully someone else can chime in.

I came across the threading.Event() object and created a class variable like so:
self.setstop = threading.Event()

Then I have a class method with the following:
self.setstop.set()

I call this method from the main thread before the program exits (when I hit ^C) on all my threads. I have a threading.timer on each thread as well which periodically checks the condition self.setstop.isSet(), and will call thread.exit() if it is true, but this doesn't seem to exit right away. Maybe because I am using threading.Thread to thread a class?