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Kirill Smelkov
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Georg Brandl
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#5031: fix Thread.daemon property docs.
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@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ changed through the :attr:`name` attribute.
A thread can be flagged as a "daemon thread". The significance of this flag is
that the entire Python program exits when only daemon threads are left. The
initial value is inherited from the creating thread. The flag can be set
through the :attr:`daemon`
attribute
.
through the :attr:`daemon`
property
.
There is a "main thread" object; this corresponds to the initial thread of
control in the Python program. It is not a daemon thread.
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@@ -332,10 +332,11 @@ impossible to detect the termination of alien threads.
.. attribute:: Thread.daemon
The thread's daemon flag. This must be set before :meth:`start` is called,
otherwise :exc:`RuntimeError` is raised.
The initial value is inherited from the creating thread.
A boolean value indicating whether this thread is a daemon thread (True) or
not (False). This must be set before :meth:`start` is called, otherwise
:exc:`RuntimeError` is raised. Its initial value is inherited from the
creating thread; the main thread is not a daemon thread and therefore all
threads created in the main thread default to :attr:`daemon` = ``False``.
The entire Python program exits when no alive non-daemon threads are left.
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