Closes #13140: Fix the daemon_threads attribute of ThreadingMixIn.

Lib/socketserver.py

@@ -588,8 +588,7 @@ class ThreadingMixIn:
         """Start a new thread to process the request."""
         t = threading.Thread(target = self.process_request_thread,
                              args = (request, client_address))
-        if self.daemon_threads:
-            t.daemon = True
+        t.daemon = self.daemon_threads
         t.start()
 
 

Lib/test/test_socketserver.py

@@ -123,7 +123,6 @@ class SocketServerTest(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(server.server_address, server.socket.getsockname())
         return server
 
-    @unittest.skipUnless(threading, 'Threading required for this test.')
     @reap_threads
     def run_server(self, svrcls, hdlrbase, testfunc):
         server = self.make_server(self.pickaddr(svrcls.address_family),

Misc/NEWS

@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #13140: Fix the daemon_threads attribute of ThreadingMixIn.
+
 - Issue #13339: Fix compile error in posixmodule.c due to missing semicolon.
   Thanks to Robert Xiao.