Issue #6064: Add a `daemon` keyword argument to the threading.Thread
and multiprocessing.Process constructors in order to override the
default behaviour of inheriting the daemonic property from the current
thread/process.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_threading.py b/Lib/test/test_threading.py
index ecbbdbf..13a428d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_threading.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_threading.py
@@ -427,6 +427,14 @@
t.daemon = True
self.assertTrue('daemon' in repr(t))
+ def test_deamon_param(self):
+ t = threading.Thread()
+ self.assertFalse(t.daemon)
+ t = threading.Thread(daemon=False)
+ self.assertFalse(t.daemon)
+ t = threading.Thread(daemon=True)
+ self.assertTrue(t.daemon)
+
class ThreadJoinOnShutdown(BaseTestCase):