[Python-Dev] Thread questionlet

[Guido van Rossum]

> My question, which I could not easily answer by reading
> the source is:
> What happens when the main thread ends? Do all threads run
> until they are eady too, or are they just killed away?
> And if they are killed, are they just removed, or do
> they all get an exception for cleanup?

If you're talking about the thread module, they are killed without
being given notice.  The threading module however waits for all
non-daemon threads, using the atexit mechanism build on top of
sys.exit.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)