[issue13077] Unclear behavior of daemon threads on main thread exit

2011-10-01 Thread etuardu
etuardu added the comment: Let me put it this way: the definition of daemon thread describes the behaviour of the Python program running it (its exit condition in particular) instead of going straight to the point describing the behaviour of the daemon thread itself first, and finally add

[issue13077] Unclear behavior of daemon threads on main thread exit

2011-09-30 Thread etuardu
New submission from etuardu : The definition of daemon thread in the current documentation reads: «A thread can be flagged as a "daemon thread". The significance of this flag is that the entire Python program exits when only daemon threads are left. [...]» (http://docs.python.o

[issue13039] IDLE editor: shell-like behaviour on line starting with ">>>"

2011-09-28 Thread etuardu
etuardu added the comment: Note that this does not affect just pasted code, you can reproduce it typing on a new line three greater-than signs plus a space, and then trying to use backspace. One might want to legitimately do that in a module docstring, e.g.: """This modul

[issue13039] IDLE3 editor: shell-like behaviour on line starting with ">>>"

2011-09-23 Thread etuardu
New submission from etuardu : In the editor window, if a line starts with the shell prompt string ">>>", backspacing is inhibited when reaching the first space, just like in the shell window. OS: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic-pae #50-Ubuntu i386 GNU/Linux Python version: 3.2 I