Python subprocess question

[Roger]

On Jan 6, 1:18 pm, s... at pobox.com wrote:
>     Roger> .setDaemon(True) means the thread gets destroyed when the program
>     Roger> exits and default .setDaemon(False) means that the thread
>     Roger> continues to process even when the main program is gone?
>
> Approximately.  The main thread (and thus the program) will exit only when
> all non-daemon threads have finished.  A thread can't continue to run if the
> main program has exited.
>
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> Skip Montanaro - s... at pobox.com -http://smontanaro.dyndns.org/

Gotcha.  Thank you, that makes it clearer.  =)