-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Nick Coghlan wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Jesus Cea <jcea <at> jcea.es> writes: >>>> 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. >>> I've never understood why the "daemon" flag couldn't be passed as one of the >>> constructor arguments. It would make code shorter, and avoid the mistyping >>> risk >>> mentioned by Jesus. It also sounds saner, since you shouldn't change the >>> flag >>> after the thread is started anyway. >> As to the why question, this was done to match the Java Thread class. >> I don't want to speculate why the Java API was designed this way -- >> possibly it was a relic of an earlier API version in Java, but >> possibly there's a reason I can't fathom right now. After all, there >> are excellent reasons why start() is a separate call... > > Hmm, having (daemon=False) as a parameter on start() would probably be > an even better API than having it on __init__() (modulo subclassing > compatibility concerns).
Agreed. Could it be done for 3.0?. - -- Jesus Cea Avion _/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.jcea.es/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ jabber / xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ . _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "Things are not so easy" _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "My name is Dump, Core Dump" _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "El amor es poner tu felicidad en la felicidad de otro" - Leibniz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQCVAwUBSMFZ/plgi5GaxT1NAQKvoQQApXIgymNMmPtL3ZX/EsllxnnW47oSgzB7 OaOzQXaFsyCo00ErUFm0hluIIHLT6Wqa4nlY1ixx6ThgytNOqHQIRgN/w6oS4kGP WXO3pztXKaiD3gJfxjUOU7FRdOrlXjqwGryq/OPwKtxKFzyloTdTwUAhKCgpwFt3 9QLSioRgLPo= =Pztd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
