Is it possible to stop (cancel) urlretrieve process?

Question

urlretrieve(URL, file_path, self.reporthook)

I use tkinter for Python 3 and want to abort downloading a file and close the application when user press close button.

Answer 1

You should look into multiprocessing. May not be what it was intended to do, but it should be possible to kill off outside of the code thread.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/multiprocessing.html