Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > No, as this one doesn't give me a handle to the thread. I also find this > barely readable, for sure it doesn't beat the readability of the proposed > function.
Roll your own convenient function, though. :) At work we have this short function in our tool box: def daemonthread(target, name=None, autostart=True, args=(), kwargs=None): """Start a thread as daemonic thread """ thread = Thread(target=target, name=name, args=args, kwargs=kwargs) thread.setDaemon(True) if autostart: thread.start() return thread Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list