How to give different names to ThreadPoolExecutor threads in Python

Question

I have the below code for creating threads and running them.

from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
import threading


def task(n):
    result = 0
    i = 0
    for i in range(n):
        result = result + i
    print("I: {}".format(result))
    print(f'Thread : {threading.current_thread()} executed with variable {n}')

def main():
    executor = ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=3)
    task1 = executor.submit(task, (10))
    task2 = executor.submit(task, (100))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

When i run the code in my windows 10 machine this is the output which gets generated:

I: 45
Thread : <Thread(ThreadPoolExecutor-0_0, started daemon 11956)> executed with variable 10
I: 4950
Thread : <Thread(ThreadPoolExecutor-0_0, started daemon 11956)> executed with variable 100

Process finished with exit code 0

As we see both the threads have the same name. How do i differentiate between them by giving them different names ? Is this somehow a feature of the concurrent.futures class ?

Many thanks for any answers.

Answer 1

from the docs:

New in version 3.6: The thread_name_prefix argument was added to allow users to control the threading.Thread names for worker threads created by the pool for easier debugging.

using the thread_name_prefix argument:

concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=None, thread_name_prefix='')