[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Close #12028: Make threading._get_ident() public, rename it to (original) (raw)
Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue May 31 07:44:17 CEST 2011
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On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:04 AM, victor.stinner <python-checkins at python.org> wrote:
+.. function:: getident() + + Return the 'thread identifier' of the current thread. This is a nonzero + integer. Its value has no direct meaning; it is intended as a magic cookie + to be used e.g. to index a dictionary of thread-specific data. Thread + identifiers may be recycled when a thread exits and another thread is + created.
That's not quite true - the Thread id isn't relinquished until the Thread object itself is destroyed, rather than when the underlying thread finishes execution (i.e. the lifecycle of a_thread.ident is the same as that of id(a_thread)).
Cheers, Nick.
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