From: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2023 17:12:56 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: IDLE: Condense run.main threading.Thread start. (#106125)
X-Git-Tag: v3.13.0a1~1627
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=eaa1eae55ea66d74c5303924320185dac74d4eb1;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

IDLE: Condense run.main threading.Thread start. (#106125)

Use daemon argument added in 3.3 and directly call .start.
Remove now unused 'sockthread' name.
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diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/run.py b/Lib/idlelib/run.py
index 4ffc90ab0c85..53e80a9b4280 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/run.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/run.py
@@ -140,11 +140,12 @@ def main(del_exitfunc=False):
 
     capture_warnings(True)
     sys.argv[:] = [""]
-    sockthread = threading.Thread(target=manage_socket,
-                                  name='SockThread',
-                                  args=((LOCALHOST, port),))
-    sockthread.daemon = True
-    sockthread.start()
+    threading.Thread(target=manage_socket,
+                     name='SockThread',
+                     args=((LOCALHOST, port),),
+                     daemon=True,
+                    ).start()
+
     while True:
         try:
             if exit_now: