[Tutor] threading.currentThread() always same across request ?

[Kent Johnson]

Andreas Kostyrka wrote:
> * Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net> [070414 19:53]:
>> That's a good point. Does anyone know when to prefer threading.local() 
>> vs thread attributes?
> It's design question, I guess:
> 
> *) if you have thread subclasses, then use thread attributes.
> *) if you have standard threads, then use thread.local().
> 
> The idea is, that it's "rude" to stick attributes on an object that is
> not owned by you.
> 
> Rationale:
> *) Somebody might decide to make threading.Thread be a new style
> object with __slots__ => your code breaks.
> 
> I know, it's unprobably, but if you derive a subclass, you can be at
> least sure that the object will have a __dict__ ;)

If you use threading.local() you can be sure the names you use don't 
conflict with any attributes of the thread.

Kent