How to stop Python PyGame program from a thread

Question

I have a thread in my PyGame test code, listening for the pygame.QUIT event. Whenever it detects that event it should quit the whole program. Instead, using exit(0) it only stops the listener thread.

class ListenerThread(threading.Thread):
    def run(self):
        while True:
            print "Listening..."
            events = pygame.event.get()
            for event in events:
                if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
                    exit(0)

            time.sleep(1)

listener = ListenerThread()
listener.setDaemon(True)
listener.start()

The print "Listening..." and time.sleep(1) are there for test purposes only.

I also have some code there for graphics, and whenever I run the program, the terminal just says Listening... repeatedly, then when I click the 'x' button to close the window, the thread stops after the next Listening..., but the graphic stuff still keeps going on, so I have to close the program manually.

So, the question is, how do I close the whole program from within the thread?

Take a look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1489669/how-to-exit-the-entire-application-from-a-python-thread — Aran-Fey, Jul 18 '16 at 06:49
@Rawing Ok, that worked, thanks. But I'm new here, so am I able to mark a comment as a working answer? — Zakru, Jul 18 '16 at 07:24
You can't. Just leave it and it'll be marked as a duplicate eventually. — Aran-Fey, Jul 18 '16 at 07:28
@Rawing See? I marked it myself. I are a smart people human! — Zakru, Jul 18 '16 at 08:28
I didn't even know that was possible, some intricacies of SO still elude me! — Aran-Fey, Jul 18 '16 at 08:30

How to stop Python PyGame program from a thread

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