[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Issue #11223: Add threading._info() function providing informations about the

[Benjamin Peterson]

2011/4/20 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com>:
> Le mercredi 20 avril 2011 à 20:24 +1000, Nick Coghlan a écrit :
>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Victor Stinner
>> <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Le mardi 19 avril 2011 à 22:42 -0400, Terry Reedy a écrit :
>> >> On 4/19/2011 5:59 PM, victor.stinner wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >    Issue #11223: Add threading._info() function providing informations about the
>> >> > thread implementation.
>> >>
>> >> Since this is being documented, making it part of the public api, why
>> >> does it have a leading underscore?
>> >
>> > Well, I suppose that this function might be specific to CPython. Do you
>> > think that this function can/should be implemented in PyPy, Jython and
>> > IronPython?
>>
>> I agree with your reasoning (and the leading underscore), but I
>> suggest marking the docs with the implementation detail flag.
>
> I chose to return a dict to be flexible: any thread implementation may
> add new specific keys. There is just one mandatory key: 'name', name of
> the thread implementation (nt, os2, pthread or solaris for CPython 3.3).

How about using a structseq ala sys.float_info or sys.long_info? (In
fact, we might want to put this in sys.)


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Regards,
Benjamin