question about ctrl-d and atexit with threads

[Darren Dale]

On Mar 5, 12:02 pm, s... at pobox.com wrote:
> What happens if you simply call
>
>     my_thread.setDaemon(True)
>
> (or in Python 2.6):
>
>     my_thread.daemon = True
>
> ?  That is the documented way to exit worker threads when you want the
> application to exit.  From the threading module docs:
>
>     "The entire Python program exits when no alive non-daemon threads are
>     left."

Thank you Skip, that solves the problem. I'm still curious what the
difference is between python's handling of sys.exit and EOF, but its
academic at this point.

Thanks again,
Darren