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Just FYI, a pure python2 implementation that monkey patches Thread.start() to set the OS level thread name intelligently.
 import ctypes, ctypes.util, threading
 libpthread_path = ctypes.util.find_library("pthread")
 if libpthread_path:
 libpthread = ctypes.CDLL(libpthread_path)
 if hasattr(libpthread, "pthread_setname_np"):
 pthread_setname_np = libpthread.pthread_setname_np
 pthread_setname_np.argtypes = [ctypes.c_void_p, ctypes.c_char_p]
 pthread_setname_np.restype = ctypes.c_int
 orig_start = threading.Thread.start
 def new_start(self):
 orig_start(self)
 try:
 name = self.name
 if not name or name.startswith('Thread-'):
 name = self.__class__.__name__
 if name == 'Thread':
 name = self.name
 if name:
 if isinstance(name, unicode):
 name = name.encode('ascii', 'replace')
 ident = getattr(self, "ident", None)
 if ident is not None:
 pthread_setname_np(ident, name[:15])
 except Exception:
 pass # Don't care about failure to set name
 threading.Thread.start = new_start