Killing Threads

[Robert Rawlins - Think Blue]

Thanks for this Diez and Tim,

I'll take a look into this today, sorry for not posting any code fragments,
its not so much a fragment as it is a bloody great big monster :-D

Rob

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From: python-list-bounces+robert.rawlins=thinkbluemedia.co.uk at python.org
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On Behalf Of Diez B. Roggisch
Sent: 02 May 2007 09:05
To: python-list at python.org
Subject: Re: Killing Threads

> You probably need to setDaemon (True) on your threads
> after you've created them and before they run. That
> tells the OS: don't bother waiting for these ones to
> finish if the program exits. (At least I think that's
> what it does; I don't use threads all that much)

Actually all it does is to tell the at_exit-handler that it's ok to 
terminate even though there are still some threads. The OS isn't 
concerned with this.

Diez
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