[Python-Dev] Threading, atexit, and logging (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Dec 7 06:24:23 CET 2006

Tim Peters schrieb:

Sorry, I couldn't follow the intent there. Not obvious to me how moving this stuff from threading into thread would make it easier(?) for the implementation to wait for non-daemon threads to finish.

Currently, if you create a thread through the thread module (rather than threading), it won't participate in the "wait until all threads are done" algorithm - you have to use the threading module. Moving it into the thread module would allow to cover all threads.

Also, if the interpreter invokes, say, threading._shutdown(): that's also "user-screwable", as a user may put something else into threading._shutdown. To make it non-visible, it has to be in C, not Python (and even then it might be still visible to extension modules).

Regards, Martin

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