[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython: Issue #11223: Add threading._info() function providing informations about the

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:03:19 -0500
Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:

> 2011/4/20 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com>:
> > Le mercredi 20 avril 2011 à 11:57 -0500, Benjamin Peterson a écrit :
> >> How about using a structseq ala sys.float_info or sys.long_info? (In
> >> fact, we might want to put this in sys.)
> >
> > Would you prefer something like the following example?
> >
> >>>> sys.thread_info
> > sys.threadinfo(name='pthread', 'lock_implementation': 'semaphore',
> > version: 'NPTL 2.11.2')
> >>>> sys.thread_info
> > sys.threadinfo(name='nt', 'lock_implementation': 'semaphore', version:
> > '')
> >>>> sys.thread_info
> > sys.threadinfo(name='os2', 'lock_implementation': '', version: '')
> 
> The only things that would improve that beautiful sight would be
> s/threadinfo/thread_info/. :)

And None instead of the empty string when a value is unknown/irrelevant.

Regards

Antoine.