Tim Peters added the comment:

Is there a problem here?  I haven't heard of anyone even wondering about this 
before.  threading.py worries about Threads created _by_ threading.py, plus the 
magical (from its point of view) thread that first imports threading.py.  Users 
mix in `_thread` threads, or raw C threads from extension modules, essentially 
at their own risk.  Which risks are minimal, but can have visible consequences.

I don't view that as being a real problem.  It might help if, e.g., a Wiki 
somewhere spelled out the consequences under different Python implementations 
(while I don't know for sure, I _expect_ the current docs just say "in normal 
conditions, the main thread is the thread from which the Python interpreter was 
started" because it doesn't want to over-specify the behavior in an area nobody 
really cares about).

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