Killing Threads

[Diez B. Roggisch]

> You probably need to setDaemon (True) on your threads
> after you've created them and before they run. That
> tells the OS: don't bother waiting for these ones to
> finish if the program exits. (At least I think that's
> what it does; I don't use threads all that much)

Actually all it does is to tell the at_exit-handler that it's ok to 
terminate even though there are still some threads. The OS isn't 
concerned with this.

Diez