[Python-Dev] bug 754449 and threads raising exceptions at interpreter teardown

[Guido van Rossum]

> I don't trust the garbage collector to have any sane shutdown semantics,
> especially regarding threads.  In my own code, I always make the best
> effort to shut threads (daemon or otherwise) down explicitly.

Shutting down daemon threads is an oxymoron.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)