Per thread data

[Will McGugan]

Hi,

Is there a canonical way of storing per-thread data in Python?

Will McGugan

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gerhard_H=E4ring?=]

Hi,

Is there a canonical way of storing per-thread data in Python?

Good question.

There's threading.local() which creates a thread-local object for you.

Maybe this Cookbook entry is helpful:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/302088

-- Gerhard

 

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Is there a canonical way of storing per-thread data in Python?

mydata = threading.local()
mydata.x = 1
....

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-threading.html