First phase of making the / (site/home) view generic enough to use it for Sponsor "home" page, Program "home" page, Organization "home" page, etc. when combined with HomeSettings. First phase of addressing this issue: http://code.google.com/p/soc/issues/detail?id=64 by factoring "Site Settings" apart from the site/home stuff. Patch by: Todd Larsen Review by: Pawel Solyga Review URL: http://codereviews.googleopensourceprograms.com/1405

"""
Code used in a couple of places to work with the current thread's environment.
Current users include i18n and request prefix handling.
"""

try:
    import threading
    currentThread = threading.currentThread
except ImportError:
    def currentThread():
        return "no threading"