Unique thread ID

[Christian Heimes]

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.

Christian