[Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Misc NEWS,1.531,1.532

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Fri, 22 Nov 2002 00:08:47 -0800


Update of /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Misc
In directory sc8-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv2547/Misc

Modified Files:
	NEWS 
Log Message:
Patch #550765: Add daemon_threads flag.


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+ - When cancelling a server that implemented threading with a keyboard
+   interrupt, the server would shut down but not terminate (waiting on
+   client threads). A new member variable, daemon_threads, was added to
+   the ThreadingMixIn class in SocketServer.py to make it explicit that
+   this behavior needs to be controlled.
+ 
  - A new module, optparse, provides a fancy alternative to getopt for
    command line parsing.  It is a slightly modified version of Greg