Message 270355 - Python tracker [proxy]

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Author	tim.peters
Recipients	davin, eryksun, neologix, pietvo, pitrou, sbt, tim.peters
Date	2016-07-14.03:24:32
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About ""No parents, no children", that's fine so far as it goes. But Python isn't C, a threading.Thread is not a POSIX thread, and threading.py _does_ have a concept of "the main thread". There's no conceptual problem _in Python_ with saying "the main thread" waits to .join() other non-daemon threading.Threads at process exit. No parent/child relationships are implied by that either - it's just the concept that one thread is distinguished.

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About ""No parents, no children", that's fine so far as it goes.  But Python isn't C, a threading.Thread is not a POSIX thread, and threading.py _does_ have a concept of "the main thread".  There's no conceptual problem _in Python_ with saying "the main thread" waits to .join() other non-daemon threading.Threads at process exit.  No parent/child relationships are implied by that either - it's just the concept that one thread is distinguished.

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2016-07-14 03:24:32	tim.peters	set	recipients: + tim.peters, pitrou, pietvo, neologix, sbt, eryksun, davin
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