threading question

[Siggy Brentrup]

"Thomas Heller" <thomas.heller at ion-tof.com> writes:

> I want a thread to run in parallel with the interactive
> interpreter.
> Simple:
> 
> def do_work():
>     import time
>     while 1:
>         time.sleep (1)
>         ...
> 
> import threading

change this
> threading.Thread (target=do_work()).start()
to
  worker = threading.Thread (target=do_work)
  worker.setDaemon(1)
  worker.start()


> But when I hit EOF, python waits until this thread is finished.
> How can I avoid this? I want python to terminate the thread
> and exit in this case.

The main thread is special in installing an exitfunc that waits for
all non-daemonic threads to complete.

Siggy