[python-win32] Getting new thread's ID (not handle)

[Justin Johnson]

Okay, that'll have to do. Thanks.

On 8/1/05, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote: 
> 
> GetThreadID is a member of an MFC CThread class, probably not what you 
> want. The thread itself can call GetCurrentlThreadId - so the simplest way 
> is probably for your new thread to call this function and store the result 
> in a global. Your main thread can then use this global.
>  The only other way I know to get this thread ID is to create the thread 
> using win32process.CreateThread - that will return the thread ID and 
> handle of the new thread.
>  Mark
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* python-win32-bounces at python.org [mailto:
> python-win32-bounces at python.org]*On Behalf Of *Justin Johnson
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 2 August 2005 5:35 AM
> *To:* python-win32 at python.org
> *Subject:* [python-win32] Getting new thread's ID (not handle)
> 
> MSDN says PostThreadMessage takes the thread ID as a parameter. >From 
> reading the doc I see that handle and ID are different and that both should 
> be returned when creating a new thread with CreateThread. I am creating a 
> new thread with the threading module and do not see a way to get the ID 
> back. I searched the source to see if CreateThread is being called and 
> didn't find anything. Does anyone know how to get a thread's ID if the 
> thread was created with threading.Thread?
>  Thanks.
> Justin
> 
>
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