Do not rely on dicts.merge to change target
Also make dicts.merge actually not touch target. This is much cleaner
than modifying in place, especially since we assign the result of the
dicts.merge call to target most of the time anyway.
Patch by: Sverre Rabbelier
"""
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"