Hi Peter, thanks for the reply,
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 09:48:18PM +0200, Peter Otten wrote: > Ervin Hegedüs wrote: > > > Exception in thread Thread-82: > > ... > > My question is: how much thread ID could be totally? Is there any > > maximum number? And if the thread reached that, what will be > > done? Overlflowed? Couting from 0 again? > > A quick peak into threading.py reveals > > # Helper to generate new thread names > _counter = 0 > def _newname(template="Thread-%d"): > global _counter > _counter += 1 > return template % _counter > > class Thread: > ... > def __init__(self, group=None, target=None, name=None, > args=(), kwargs=None, *, daemon=None): > ... > self._name = str(name or _newname()) > > > There is no upper limit to the thread name other than that you will > eventually run out of memory ;) thanks - I hope that the memory will not run out by these threads... :) Anyway, that means, on my system: >>> import sys >>> print sys.maxint 9223372036854775807 the couter could be 9223372036854775807? And after? :) Thanks, a. -- I � UTF-8 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
