setDaemon problem.

[Michael Hoffman]

Richard Brodie wrote:
> "Ramashish Baranwal" <ramashish.lists at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:1177076608.110673.305970 at d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> 
>> I was also wondering about "daemonizing" a thread, but I interpreted
>> that it would daemonize the process which it didn't. I think setDaemon
>> should be renamed to setDetached or something similar.
> 
> Neither is particularly intuitive; it just depends whether you are more
> familiar with the Posix terminology or the Java one. I personally prefer
> detached but there is little chance of a name change now.

Why not? That's what Python 3.0 is for.
-- 
Michael Hoffman