Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > I don't see why this should be considered acceptable behavior. Why > don't threads have their own ThreadExit exception, rather than > overloading the use, and therefore, the meaning, of the SystemExit > exception? As indicated by their names, sys.exit and the SystemExit > exception should *only* be used to exit the entire system, not just a > thread!
I agree the situation isn't optimal. However, fixing this would also break compatibility with any application that uses sys.exit() in a thread and expects it to exit the thread, not the whole process. So we're kind of stuck with it. ---------- nosy: +pitrou _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6634> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
