change threading.getIdent to a property

This is new in 2.6 so now need to worry about backwards compatibility :)

Doc/library/threading.rst

@@ -661,12 +661,12 @@ impossible to detect the termination of alien threads.
    constructor.
 
 
-.. method:: Thread.get_ident()
+.. attribute:: Thread.ident
 
-   Return the 'thread identifier' of this thread or None if the thread has not
-   been started.  This is a nonzero integer.  See the :func:`thread.get_ident()`
+   The 'thread identifier' of this thread or ``None`` if the thread has not been
+   started.  This is a nonzero integer.  See the :func:`thread.get_ident()`
    function.  Thread identifiers may be recycled when a thread exits and another
-   thread is created.  The identifier is returned even after the thread has
+   thread is created.  The identifier is available even after the thread has
    exited.
 
    .. versionadded:: 2.6

Lib/test/test_threading.py

@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ class ThreadTests(unittest.TestCase):
         for i in range(NUMTASKS):
             t = TestThread("<thread %d>"%i, self, sema, mutex, numrunning)
             threads.append(t)
-            self.failUnlessEqual(t.get_ident(), None)
+            self.failUnlessEqual(t.ident, None)
             self.assert_(re.match('<TestThread\(.*, initial\)>', repr(t)))
             t.start()
 
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ class ThreadTests(unittest.TestCase):
         for t in threads:
             t.join(NUMTASKS)
             self.assert_(not t.is_alive())
-            self.failIfEqual(t.get_ident(), 0)
+            self.failIfEqual(t.ident, 0)
             self.assert_(re.match('<TestThread\(.*, \w+ -?\d+\)>', repr(t)))
         if verbose:
             print 'all tasks done'

Lib/threading.py

@@ -663,7 +663,8 @@ class Thread(_Verbose):
 
     setName = _old_api(set_name, "setName")
 
-    def get_ident(self):
+    @property
+    def ident(self):
         assert self.__initialized, "Thread.__init__() not called"
         return self.__ident
 

Misc/NEWS

@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ Extension Modules
 
 - Issue #2870: cmathmodule.c compile error.
 
-- Added a threading.Thread.getIdent() method.
+- Added a threading.Thread.ident property.
 
 Library
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