Implemented thread-local data as proposed on python-dev:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-June/045785.html
diff --git a/Lib/threading.py b/Lib/threading.py
index e70c61b..c485524 100644
--- a/Lib/threading.py
+++ b/Lib/threading.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
# Rename some stuff so "from threading import *" is safe
__all__ = ['activeCount', 'Condition', 'currentThread', 'enumerate', 'Event',
'Lock', 'RLock', 'Semaphore', 'BoundedSemaphore', 'Thread',
- 'Timer', 'setprofile', 'settrace']
+ 'Timer', 'setprofile', 'settrace', 'local']
_start_new_thread = thread.start_new_thread
_allocate_lock = thread.allocate_lock
@@ -661,6 +661,14 @@
_MainThread()
+# get thread-local implementation, either from the thread
+# module, or from the python fallback
+
+try:
+ from thread import _local as local
+except ImportError:
+ from _threading_local import local
+
# Self-test code