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authorMartin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>2002-11-22 08:08:44 (GMT)
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Patch #550765: Add daemon_threads flag.
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Library
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+- When cancelling a server that implemented threading with a keyboard
+ interrupt, the server would shut down but not terminate (waiting on
+ client threads). A new member variable, daemon_threads, was added to
+ the ThreadingMixIn class in SocketServer.py to make it explicit that
+ this behavior needs to be controlled.
+
- A new module, optparse, provides a fancy alternative to getopt for
command line parsing. It is a slightly modified version of Greg
Ward's Optik package.