threading - how to get parent id/name?

Question

I looking for the way to get parent ID or name from child thread. In example, I have main thread as MainThread. In this thread i create a few new threads. Then I use threading.enumerate() to get references to all running thread, pick one of child threads and somehow get ID or name of MainThread. Is any way to do that?

Answer 1

Make a Thread subclass that sets a parent attribute on init:

from threading import current_thread

class MyThread(threading.Thread):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        self.parent = current_thread()
        Thread.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)

Then, while doing work inside a thread started with this class, we can access current_thread().parent to get the spawning Thread object.