On Jan 18, 2:31 am, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Benjamin wrote: > > Is there a way to obtain a unique ID for the current thread? I have an > > object that I need to store local thread data in, and I don't want to > > use threading.local because each thread might have multiple instances > > of my object. > > threading.get_ident() but please use threading.local. Nobody is going to > stop you if you use a list or dict in threading.local. then, I have to figure out how to represent an instance of my object in threading.local. (The data also won't be garbage collect when my object is, will it?) I think the unique id is elegant in this case. > > Christian
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