Adds a Thread.getIdent() method to provide the _get_ident() value for
any given threading.Thread object. feature request issue 2871.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_threading.py b/Lib/test/test_threading.py
index 30aa9d5..b974715 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_threading.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_threading.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
import test.test_support
from test.test_support import verbose
import random
+import re
import sys
import threading
import thread
@@ -72,6 +73,8 @@
for i in range(NUMTASKS):
t = TestThread("<thread %d>"%i, self, sema, mutex, numrunning)
threads.append(t)
+ self.failUnlessEqual(t.getIdent(), None)
+ self.assert_(re.match('<TestThread\(.*, initial\)>', repr(t)))
t.start()
if verbose:
@@ -79,6 +82,8 @@
for t in threads:
t.join(NUMTASKS)
self.assert_(not t.isAlive())
+ self.failIfEqual(t.getIdent(), 0)
+ self.assert_(re.match('<TestThread\(.*, \w+ -?\d+\)>', repr(t)))
if verbose:
print 'all tasks done'
self.assertEqual(numrunning.get(), 0)