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  r87341 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-12-17 18:42:16 +0100 (ven., 17 déc. 2010) | 4 lines

  Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
  from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
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Lib/threading.py

@@ -63,8 +63,14 @@ if __debug__:
         def _note(self, format, *args):
             if self.__verbose:
                 format = format % args
-                format = "%s: %s\n" % (
-                    current_thread().name, format)
+                # Issue #4188: calling current_thread() can incur an infinite
+                # recursion if it has to create a DummyThread on the fly.
+                ident = _get_ident()
+                try:
+                    name = _active[ident].name
+                except KeyError:
+                    name = "<OS thread %d>" % ident
+                format = "%s: %s\n" % (name, format)
                 _sys.stderr.write(format)
 
 else:

Misc/NEWS

@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ Core and Builtins
 
 Library
 -------
+
+- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
+  from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
+
 - Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
   ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.