[issue5031] Thread.daemon docs
Gabriel Genellina
report at bugs.python.org
Sat Jan 24 01:29:03 CET 2009
Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar> 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 thread
(True) or not (False). This must be set before start() is called,
otherwise RuntimeError is raised. Its initial value is inherited from
the creating thread; the main thread is not a daemon thread.
The entire Python program exits ..."""
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nosy: +gagenellina
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