[Python-Dev] Add function to signal module for getting main thread id

[Andrew Svetlov]

I've filed http://bugs.python.org/issue18882 for this.

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Andrew Svetlov
<andrew.svetlov at gmail.com> wrote:
> _MainThread can be used as workaround, but adding public function makes value.
>
> Oleg, as I understand _MainThread is a class, not class instance, test
> for threading._MainThread.ident doesn't make sense.
>
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Oleg Broytman <phd at phdru.name> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:24:07PM +0300, Andrew Svetlov <andrew.svetlov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Main thread is slightly different from others.
>>> Signals can be subscribed from main thread only.
>>> Tulip has special logic for main thread.
>>> In application code we can explicitly know which thread is executed,
>>> main or not.
>>> But from library it's not easy.
>>> Tulip uses check like
>>>     threading.current_thread().name == 'MainThread'
>>> This approach has a problem: thread name is writable attribute and can
>>> be changed by user code.
>>
>>    You can test
>> threading.current_thread().__class__ is threading._MainThread
>>    or
>> threading.current_thread().ident == threading._MainThread.ident
>>
>>> My proposition is to add function like get_mainthread_id() -> int
>>> which return ident for main thread
>>
>>    threading._MainThread.ident ?
>>
>> Oleg.
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> Thanks,
> Andrew Svetlov



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Thanks,
Andrew Svetlov