[Python-3000] About "daemon" in threading module

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon Sep 8 22:10:07 CEST 2008



Nick Coghlan wrote:

> (I deliberately pronounce daemon as day-mon though, so I don't forget
> how to spell it - perhaps pronouncing it as dee-mon makes it harder to
> remember the order of the 'a' and the 'e'?)
> 
> If it is just the specific typo as 'deamon' that concerns people, adding
> a property specifically to raise an exception for that name would be far
> less hassle than locking down the attributes of all Thread instances.

Different people have different mis-spelling quirks.  I might type demon 
(in other contexts) but never deamon instead of daemon.  There are other 
stdlib attributes I am more likely to misspell, so worrying about just 
this one, to the point of changing the implementation, seems a bit 
mis-directed.



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