Rene Pijlman wrote:
> Carl J. Van Arsdall:
>
>>I've been toying with threads a lot lately and I've noticed that if a
>>scripting error occurs in a thread the thread dies, but not the process
>>that spawned the thread.
>>
>>Is python supposed to behave this way or is this type of behavior
>>accidental?
>
>
> "start_new_thread(function, args[, kwargs])
> When the function terminates with an unhandled exception, a stack trace is
> printed and then the thread exits (but other threads continue to run)."
> http://docs.python.org/lib/module-thread.html
And you might also want to see threading.thread's setDaemon() method:
The entire Python program exits when no active non-daemon
threads are left.
http://docs.python.org/lib/thread-objects.html
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