Message7004

Is it important for the name to be based on an incrementing counter.

I have a working change that fixes this issue. I initially used an integer counter, incrementing by one each time. But there is a remote possibility of a clash in thread names with this scenario, since the counter wraps around at 2**31.

I'd prefer to use the hashCode of the thread object itself, which will lower the probability of clashes.

So thread names would look like this

>>> from threading import Thread as t
>>> t().getName()
u'Thread-14662467'
>>> t().getName()
u'Thread-6815360'
>>> t().getName()
u'Thread-8640702'
>>> t().getName()
u'Thread-20730792'
>>> t().getName()
u'Thread-32316862'
>>> t().getName()
u'Thread-31983457'
>>> t().getName()
u'Thread-29881213'
>>> t().getName()
u'Thread-27649674'
>>> t().getName()
u'Thread-10545552'