bpo-39609: set the thread_name_prefix for the default asyncio executor (

pythonGH-18458)

Just a small debugging improvement to identify the asyncio executor threads.

Lib/asyncio/base_events.py

@@ -806,7 +806,9 @@ def run_in_executor(self, executor, func, *args):
             # Only check when the default executor is being used
             self._check_default_executor()
             if executor is None:
-                executor = concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor()
+                executor = concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(
+                    thread_name_prefix='asyncio'
+                )
                 self._default_executor = executor
         return futures.wrap_future(
             executor.submit(func, *args), loop=self)

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-02-11-19-45-31.bpo-39609.dk40Uw.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Add thread_name_prefix to default asyncio executor