exceptions from daemon threads which access the global namespace at interpreter shutdown (how to squelch output?)

I've got an application which makes fairly heavy use of daemon threads to perform 'background' processing and various other long-running tasks that are likely to block. I originally thought I could safely fire off a daemon threading.Thread and essentially forget about managing the thread's

exceptions from daemon threads which access the global namespace at interpreter shutdown (how to squelch output?)

I've got an application which makes fairly heavy use of daemon threads to perform 'background' processing and various other long-running tasks that are likely to block. My original understanding of threading.Thread's daemon threads was that I could safely fire them off and essentially forget