[Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement

[Greg Ewing]

On 27/05/10 00:31, Brian Quinlan wrote:

> You have two semantic choices here:
> 1. let the interpreter exit with the future still running
> 2. wait until the future finishes and then exit

I'd go for (1). I don't think it's unreasonable to
expect a program that wants all its tasks to finish
to explicitly wait for that to happen.

Also, automatically doing (2) would seem to make it
difficult for a program to bail out if something
unexpected happens. It would have to explicitly
shut down the thread pool instead of just letting
an exception propagate.

-- 
Greg