STINNER Victor <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> added the comment: threading_get_ident.patch: make get_ident() public, replace threading._get_ident() by threading.get_ident(). According to this patch, get_ident() function *is* used: it is used by the logging and reprlib modules (and many tests). My patch avoids the usage of the low-level module, _thread_, in logging and reprlib. I adapted signal.pthread_kill() documentation to replace threading.current_thread().ident by threading.get_ident(). ---------- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file22089/threading_get_ident.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12028> _______________________________________