[Python-Dev] Revised Proposal: thread.get_dict

[Jim Fulton]

Tim Peters wrote:
> [Jim Fulton]
> 
>>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 "local" class to the thread
>>module for creating thread-local objects,
> 
> 
> It's probably better to add this to the (coded in Python) threading
> module, and include the Python implementation there.  The threading
> module can replace the Python implementation with something from the
> (coded in C) thread module if possible.  This is so implementations
> other than CPython get something usable right away (only CPython has
> the C API, of course).

So the C implementation would be in the thread module, perhaps
under a funny name, but the official place to import it from is the
threading module?

> 
> ... the doctest ...
> 
> 
>>  >>> thread
> 
> 
> That was meant to be "import thread", right?

Oops, yup.  My *real* prototype has "import zope.thread". :)


> BTW, I suggest it would be better if the string key had a
> unique-to-this-purpose prefix, e.g. 'threading.local.' +
> str(id(self)).  I'm uncomfortable with reserving all "string keys that
> look like integers" implicitly for this use.

ok

Jim

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