commit a3d91b43c2851312fb942f31afa12f5961706db6
author Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org> Wed Jun 21 23:41:13 2017 -0700
committer GitHub <noreply@github.com> Wed Jun 21 23:41:13 2017 -0700
tree 6988e0a35b1ee081c33a7ad5324521c4dc892425
parent a0e911b190a229693a1b9948caf768de0069046b

bpo-29212: Fix the ugly repr() ThreadPoolExecutor thread name. (#2315)

bpo-29212: Fix the ugly ThreadPoolExecutor thread name.

Fixes the newly introduced ugly default thread name for concurrent.futures
thread.ThreadPoolExecutor threads.  They'll now resemble the old <=3.5
threading default Thread-x names by being named ThreadPoolExecutor-y_n.

Lib/concurrent/futures/thread.py

diff --git a/Lib/concurrent/futures/thread.py b/Lib/concurrent/futures/thread.py
index 03d276b..1f0a1d4 100644
--- a/Lib/concurrent/futures/thread.py
+++ b/Lib/concurrent/futures/thread.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 import atexit
 from concurrent.futures import _base
+import itertools
 import queue
 import threading
 import weakref
@@ -81,6 +82,10 @@
         _base.LOGGER.critical('Exception in worker', exc_info=True)
 
 class ThreadPoolExecutor(_base.Executor):
+
+    # Used to assign unique thread names when thread_name_prefix is not supplied.
+    _counter = itertools.count().__next__
+
     def __init__(self, max_workers=None, thread_name_prefix=''):
         """Initializes a new ThreadPoolExecutor instance.
 
@@ -101,7 +106,8 @@
         self._threads = set()
         self._shutdown = False
         self._shutdown_lock = threading.Lock()
-        self._thread_name_prefix = thread_name_prefix
+        self._thread_name_prefix = (thread_name_prefix or
+                                    ("ThreadPoolExecutor-%d" % self._counter()))
 
     def submit(self, fn, *args, **kwargs):
         with self._shutdown_lock:

Lib/test/test_concurrent_futures.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_concurrent_futures.py b/Lib/test/test_concurrent_futures.py
index 23e95b2..e2da47b 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_concurrent_futures.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_concurrent_futures.py
@@ -172,10 +172,9 @@
         del executor
 
         for t in threads:
-            # We don't particularly care what the default name is, just that
-            # it has a default name implying that it is a ThreadPoolExecutor
-            # followed by what looks like a thread number.
-            self.assertRegex(t.name, r'^.*ThreadPoolExecutor.*_[0-4]$')
+            # Ensure that our default name is reasonably sane and unique when
+            # no thread_name_prefix was supplied.
+            self.assertRegex(t.name, r'ThreadPoolExecutor-\d+_[0-4]$')
             t.join()