On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Jesus Cea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > First we had "thread.setDaemon()". This was not PEP8, so Python 3.0 > renamed it to "thread.set_daemon()". Lately Python 3.0 changes the > method to an attribute "thread.daemon". > > I think the last change is risky, because you can mistype and create a > new attribute, instead of set daemon mode. Since daemon mode is only > usually visible when things goes wrong (the main thread dies), you can > miss the bug for a long time. > > Similarly with the new "thread.name" attribute. > > I would rather revert to the method style, or redo the class to avoid > new attribute creation, maybe via some "thread.__setattr__()" magic. > > Sorry if this issue is already discussed. I don't find any previous > thread about this. > > PS: If you mistype the method name, you get an error. If you mistype the > attribute assignment, the bug goes unnoticed. >
Jesus - The discussion and implementation happened here: http://bugs.python.org/issue3352 and: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-June/080285.html -Jesse _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
