STINNER Victor <vstin...@python.org> added the comment:

Jeremy Maitin-Shepard: "In general, I view hanging threads as the least bad 
thing to do when faced with either acquiring the GIL or not returning at all.  
There is a lot of existing usage of Python that currently poses a risk of 
random crashes and memory corruption while Python is exiting, and I would like 
to fix that."

Showing warnings by default or not was discussed many times in Python. It was 
decided to *hide* DeprecationWarning by default. The PEP 565 is a minor 
trade-off to show them in the __main__ module.

For me, more generally, Python default behavior is designed for *users* who 
don't want to be annoyed by warnings or anything which would make sense for 
*developers*. That's why I designed a new "Python Development Mode" (-X dev):
https://docs.python.org/dev/library/devmode.html

Maybe in development mode, the behavior could be changed to call abort(). But 
honestly, I'm not really excited by that. I'm not embedding Python in a C++ 
application. I'm almot only use Python directly: the Unix command "python3". 
For this use case, IMO it's fine to call pthread_exit() by default.

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