[issue5031] Thread.daemon docs

Georg Brandl added the comment: Committed in r69301. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python

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Jesse Noller added the comment: Then the patch I wrote before "correcting it" was more purist ;) I preferred the `daemon` = ``False`` wording as well. Here's a corrected patch. Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file12846/issue5031.patch ___ Python tracker

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Gabriel Genellina added the comment: Looks fine to me. Bah, perhaps purists would write `daemon` = ``False`` , but I think the meaning is perfectly clear now. ___ Python tracker ___

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Jesse Noller added the comment: Hows the new patch Gabriel? ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.

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Jesse Noller added the comment: Hows this Gabriel? Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file12843/issue5031.patch ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Pyt

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Jesse Noller added the comment: > Not true; the next sentence in the description explains where the > default value comes from. Hmm, unless your threads are spawned by daemonized threads; the value always defaults to false. That's why I said it defaults to False. Hows this: """A boolean value

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Gabriel Genellina added the comment: "This is a boolean value, and is False by default." Not true; the next sentence in the description explains where the default value comes from. I'd join both paragraphs to make it more clear: """A boolean value indicating whether this thread is a daemon t

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Jesse Noller added the comment: Attached is a patch to the docs which reflects the nature of the daemon property based on trunk -- keywords: +needs review, patch nosy: +jnoller Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file12842/issue5031.patch ___ Python

[issue5031] Thread.daemon docs

New submission from steve21 : In the threading module the Thread.daemon documentation says: "The thread’s daemon flag. This must be set before start() is called, otherwise RuntimeError is raised. The initial value is inherited from the creating thread. The entire Python program exits w