George Sakkis wrote: > I posted this on the Pyro list but I'm not sure if it's related > specifically to Pyro. The "finally" clause below is not executed when > f() runs on on a (daemon) thread and the program exits. DAEMON here is > a global Pyro.code.Daemon instance. > > def f(): > try: DAEMON.requestLoop() > finally: > # nothing is printed if f() runs in a thread > print "i am here!!" > DAEMON.shutdown() > print "i am over!!" > > Is "finally" not guaranteed to be executed in a non-main thread or is > there something else going on ?
Well, that's pretty much the idea behind daemon threads - that they are terminated immediately. If it were otherwise, a little endless-loop in that finally-statement of yours would cause the program termination to hang endlessly. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
