[New-bugs-announce] [issue15500] Python should support naming threads

Attila Nagy report at bugs.python.org
Mon Jul 30 14:19:30 CEST 2012


New submission from Attila Nagy:

Python class Thread has a "name" argument, which sets the name of the given thread. This name is used only internally, while there is a possibility to set this on an OS-level.
Related discussion:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2369738/can-i-set-the-name-of-a-thread-in-pthreads-linux

#include <pthread.h>
int pthread_setname_np(pthread_t thread, const char *name);

// FreeBSD & OpenBSD: function name is slightly different
void pthread_set_name_np(pthread_t tid, const char *name);

// Mac OS X: it only seems applicable to the current thread (no thread ID)
int pthread_setname_np(const char*);

It would be very useful if Python set the name parameter with the above pthread calls, so the user/developer could see which threads do what in ps or top.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 166890
nosy: bra
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Python should support naming threads
type: enhancement
versions: Python 2.7

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