setDaemon problem.

[Richard Brodie]

"Michael Hoffman" <cam.ac.uk at mh391.invalid> wrote in message 
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>> 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.

I think you need a better reason than: "it's mildly confusing to people, if
they don't read the manual" for an API change; but that's just my opinion.