[issue11866] race condition in threading._newname()

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> added the comment:

I think the patch is correct.

FWIW, my style is to prebind the next method, making the counter completely self-contained (like a closure):

+_counter = itertools.count().next
 def _newname(template="Thread-%d"):
     global _counter
-    _counter = _counter + 1
-    return template % _counter
+    return template % _counter()

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assignee:  -> rhettinger
nosy: +rhettinger
resolution:  -> accepted

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