Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment:

> I asked the user who reported this documentation omission what he's
> using the 'n' argument for. His reply:
> 
>     "Yes I am using the n parameter, it is mainly to implement a
> subclass of Queue that supports "bulk" get and put operations. This
> enhances the performance of repeated get/put calls when the Queue is
> created using multiprocessing.Manager."

I think it's fine to document it. It's been there for a long time.
Besides, if we know how to notify one thread, we are certainly able to
notify n of them :)

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