Python threading interrupt sleep

Question

Is there a way in python to interrupt a thread when it's sleeping? (As we can do in java)

I am looking for something like that.

  import threading
  from time import sleep

  def f():
      print('started')
  try:
      sleep(100)
      print('finished')
  except SleepInterruptedException:
      print('interrupted')

t = threading.Thread(target=f)
t.start()

if input() == 'stop':
    t.interrupt()

The thread is sleeping for 100 seconds and if I type 'stop', it interrupts

Answer 1

How about using condition objects: https://docs.python.org/2/library/threading.html#condition-objects

Instead of sleep() you use wait(timeout). To "interrupt" you call notify().