Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > When you join a thread which hasn't been started, you get an > exception, not a deadlock.
But we don't have a deadlock here: another thread could perfectly well call serve_forever() in the meantime and shutdown() should then return after having stopped the event loop. My point is that changing semantics may break existing software, without there being a clear benefit in doing so. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12463> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
