R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment: Attached is a version of your program that calls sys.exit from a thread other than the main one. That sys.exit does not cause python to shut down. Exiting the main program by "falling off the end" does not result in Python shutdown (pass an arbitrary argument to the example program to see this).
So what we have here, I believe, is a documentation problem, and I've updated the issue to reflect that. Please note in particular the last two caveats in the 'thread' docs; I don't consider these adequate documentation, but they do seem to be relevant to the issue at hand. Does this make sense to you? Note that issue 6634 should also be addressed in any update to the relevant areas of the documentation. ---------- assignee: -> georg.brandl components: +Documentation -None nosy: +georg.brandl, r.david.murray priority: -> normal stage: -> needs patch versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 -Python 2.5, Python 3.0 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file14786/threading_exit_example.py _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4684> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
