[Tutor] help with Tkinter, please

[Kent Johnson]

wesley chun wrote:
> if your operating system supports daemon
> threads, set your unimportant threads as daemon threads -- from the
> docs:
> 
> "The entire Python program exits when no active non-daemon threads are left."
> 
> http://docs.python.org/lib/thread-objects.html

AFAIK daemon threads are supported on all OSes that have Python thread 
support; the docs don't mention it being OS-specific and the threading 
module is written in Python so it should work wherever threads are 
supported.

Kent