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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/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