Jesse Noller <jnol...@gmail.com> added the comment: > Not true; the next sentence in the description explains where the > default value comes from.
Hmm, unless your threads are spawned by daemonized threads; the value always defaults to false. That's why I said it defaults to False. Hows this: """A boolean value indicating whether this thread is a daemon thread (True) or not (False). This must be set before start() is called, otherwise RuntimeError is raised. Its initial value is inherited from the creating thread; the main thread is not a daemon thread therefore all threads created in the main thread default to daemon = False. The entire Python program exits ...""" _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5031> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com