On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:24:07PM +0300, Andrew Svetlov <andrew.svet...@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. -- Oleg Broytman http://phdru.name/ p...@phdru.name Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com