In a message of Fri, 18 Sep 2015 20:09:19 +0100, "James Harris" writes: >> Set the daemon flag on the worker threads, so when the main thread >> exits, the workers also exit. > >Interesting idea, and I did not know that a *thread* could be a daemon. >Unfortunately, I think what you suggest would kill the threads stone >dead and not allow them to close connections.
Can you stick your worker threads into a Queue. When the main thread exits have it tell the queue to clean itself up? see: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/82965-threads-tkinter-and-asynchronous-io/ The main thread doesn't have to be a gui ... (but the author of that recipe and I are now drunkly celebrating a birthday so maybe I ought not to be posting this idea ...) Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
