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  r65818 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-08-18 11:40:03 -0500 (Mon, 18 Aug 2008) | 4 lines

  change threading.getIdent to a property

  This is new in 2.6 so now need to worry about backwards compatibility :)
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_threading.py b/Lib/test/test_threading.py
index 1abc63f..0a49297 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_threading.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_threading.py
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
         for i in range(NUMTASKS):
             t = TestThread("<thread %d>"%i, self, sema, mutex, numrunning)
             threads.append(t)
-            self.failUnlessEqual(t.get_ident(), None)
+            self.failUnlessEqual(t.ident, None)
             self.assert_(re.match('<TestThread\(.*, initial\)>', repr(t)))
             t.start()
 
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
         for t in threads:
             t.join(NUMTASKS)
             self.assert_(not t.is_alive())
-            self.failIfEqual(t.get_ident(), 0)
+            self.failIfEqual(t.ident, 0)
             self.assert_(re.match('<TestThread\(.*, \w+ -?\d+\)>', repr(t)))
         if verbose:
             print('all tasks done')
diff --git a/Lib/threading.py b/Lib/threading.py
index 4832101..ccbd67e 100644
--- a/Lib/threading.py
+++ b/Lib/threading.py
@@ -629,7 +629,8 @@
         assert self._initialized, "Thread.__init__() not called"
         self._name = str(name)
 
-    def get_ident(self):
+    @property
+    def ident(self):
         assert self._initialized, "Thread.__init__() not called"
         return self._ident