In article <d841072f-5bad-4b2c-ba14-977b77645...@a15g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>, Pakal <chambon.pas...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've noticed that there is nothing in python's documentation regarding > the use of sys.exit(code) in a non-main thread. > > As far as I've seen, the behaviour in this case is to simply exit the > thread, without caring about the return code. in the main thread > however, the return code becomes the official return code of the whole > process. > > Is that all we have to say about sys.exit() in a multithreaded > program ? Or are there corner cases I've missed ? We'd better document > this anyway.
There is this item among the Caveats for the _thread module in Py3 (thread in Py2): "Calling sys.exit() or raising the SystemExit exception is equivalent to calling _thread.exit()." http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/_thread.html http://docs.python.org/library/thread.html It seems like it should be mentioned elsewhere, too, like in sys.exit() itself. Doc patches would be welcomed, I'm sure. -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
