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joe shaw · Feb 24, 2009

Python daemon threads considered harmful

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Update April 2015 : Reading it again years later, I regret the tone of this post. I was frustrated at the time and it comes across now as just smarmy. Still, I stand by the principal idea: that you should avoid Python’s daemon threads if you can. Update June 2015 : This is Python bug 1856 . It was fixed in Python 3.2.1 and 3.3, but the fix was never backported to 2.x. (An attempt to backport…

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