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 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Diez B. Roggisch Sent: 02 May 2007 09:05 To: python-list@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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
