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Daemon Thread

A daemon thread runs in the background and supports non-daemon threads, terminating automatically when the last non-daemon thread finishes. The setDaemon(True) method or daemon property can be used to designate a thread as a daemon before it starts. By default, the main thread is non-daemon, and child threads inherit the daemon nature from their parent threads.

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Daemon Thread

A daemon thread runs in the background and supports non-daemon threads, terminating automatically when the last non-daemon thread finishes. The setDaemon(True) method or daemon property can be used to designate a thread as a daemon before it starts. By default, the main thread is non-daemon, and child threads inherit the daemon nature from their parent threads.

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Daemon Thread

A daemon thread is a thread which runs continuously in the background.


It provides support to non-daemon threads.
When last non-daemon thread terminates, automatically all daemon threads
will be terminated. We are not required to terminate daemon thread explicitly.
Daemon Threads
Create Daemon Thread
setDaemon(True) Method or daemon = True Property is used to make a
thread a Daemon thread.
Ex:-
t1 = Thread(target=disp)
t1.setDaemon(True)
t1.daemon = True
Method
setDaemon(True/False) - This method is used to set a thread as daemon thread.
You can set thread as daemon only before starting that thread which means active
thread status cannot be changed as daemon.
If we pass True non-daemon thread will become daemon and if False daemon thread
will become non-daemon.

daemon Property - This property is used to check whether a thread is daemon or not. It
returns True if thread is daemon else False.
We can also use daemon property to set a thread as daemon thread or vice versa.

isDaemon() - This method is used to check whether a thread is daemon or not. It


returns True if thread is daemon else False.
Default Nature of Thread
• Main Thread is always non-daemon thread.
• Rest of the threads inherits daemon nature from their parents.
– If parent thread is non daemon then child thread will become non daemon thread.
– If parent thread is daemon then child thread will also become a daemon thread.
• When last non-daemon thread terminates, automatically all daemon threads
will be terminated. We are not required to terminate daemon thread
explicitly.

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