Python in a Nutshell

Name

isDaemon, setDaemon

Synopsis

                        t.isDaemon( )
t.setDaemon(daemonic)

isDaemon returns True if t is a daemon (i.e., Python can terminate the whole process even if t is still active—such a termination also terminates t); otherwise isDaemon returns False. Initially, t is a daemon if and only if the thread creating t is a daemon. You can call t .setDaemon only before t .start: it sets t to be a daemon if daemonic is true.