R. David Murray added the comment: On my gentoo system it prints hi four times in 2.7, and 3.2 through 3.6. I suspect multiprocessing is killing threads, daemon or not, when the main process thread ends. I expect that's a feature, although I didn't find it documented.
Ah, found the explanation: issue 18966. Antoine indicates this could indeed be considered a bug but is part of a larger issue. If we aren't going to fix it, we should probably document it. ---------- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation -Library (Lib) nosy: +docs@python, r.david.murray versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27508> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
