[issue37416] If threading is not imported from the main thread it sees the wrong thread as the main thread.

Pavel Minaev added the comment: Debuggers will have to work around this in past Python versions that they support (which still includes Python 2 for pretty much all of them), so this is solely about resolving the inconsistency for the future. No point rushing it for 3.8 specifically

[issue37416] If threading is not imported from the main thread it sees the wrong thread as the main thread.

Pavel Minaev added the comment: It's also possible to hit if using some native code that starts a background thread without going via threading, and runs Python code on that background thread. In that case, if that Python code then does "import threading", and threading hasn't bee

[issue37416] If threading is not imported from the main thread it sees the wrong thread as the main thread.

Pavel Minaev added the comment: This is a bit tricky to explain... There's no easy way to achieve this effect "normally". It manifests due to the way some Python debuggers (specifically, pydevd and ptvsd - as used by PyCharm, PyDev, and VSCode) implement non-cooperative

[issue37416] If threading is not imported from the main thread it sees the wrong thread as the main thread.

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