I missed _MainThread in threading, that's why I've guessed to add function to signal module. threading.main_thread() is much better sure.
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > Le Fri, 30 Aug 2013 12:24:07 +0300, > Andrew Svetlov <andrew.svet...@gmail.com> a écrit : >> 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. > > Please at least use: > > >>> isinstance(threading.current_thread(), threading._MainThread) > True > > But really, what we need is a threading.main_thread() function. > > (Apologies for the previous incomplete reply (keyboard mishap)) > > Regards > > Antoine. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/andrew.svetlov%40gmail.com -- Thanks, Andrew Svetlov _______________________________________________ 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
