31 May
2011
31 May
'11
5:44 a.m.
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:04 AM, victor.stinner <python-checkins@python.org> wrote:
+.. function:: get_ident() + + 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. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia