[Python-Dev] Proposal: thread.get_dict

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Mon Jun 28 11:07:01 EDT 2004


On Mon, Jun 28, 2004, Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
> We often want to associate data with threads.  Python
> manages a dictionary per-tread for this purpose, but there's
> currently no way to get to this dictionary from Python.
> 
> I propose, for 2.4, to add a get_dict method to the thread
> module that will return this dictionary.  This will be
> implemented via a call to PyThreadState_GetDict.

+1
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