threading id generator ?

[Alan Kennedy]

[Andrea Manzini]
 > I'm a python newbie with a little problem; my need is to share an
 > incrementing counter between threads; i.e. every time I create a
 > new thread (which handle a single tcp/ip connection), I must assign
 > an unique numeric ID to it, without reuse old numbers... In example:
 >
 > thread-1 id: 1
 > thread-2 id: 2
 > thread-3 id: 3
 > thread-100 id: 100
 > thread-n id: n
 >
 > which locking semantic I must use to implement a shared generator
 > in a thread ?

This came up about a month ago. Group-Googling for ("shared generator"
and "multiple threads") gives useful results.

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22shared+generator%22+%22multiple+threads%22&meta=group%3Dcomp.lang.python.*

regards,

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alan kennedy
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