On Jul 3, 5:05 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Thanks, that makes sense; if the thread is non-daemon, it enters the finally block as expected. George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
