How to determine your pthread in Python?

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Does anyone know how to determine the pthread or native thread
identifier while in Python ?

FYI I have a multi-threaded C++ app on Solaris that embeds the Python
interpreter. While in the interpreter I need to determine its actual
running thread id.

FYI2 The python interpreter is not firing off extra threads via the
python threading classes etc.

Thanks
Alan