Guido van Rossum added the comment: Oh well. While it is undoubtedly useful I wish we had had more experience and factored the API differently. Ditto for the maxsize=N feature.
So, while it's not too late, perhaps we should indeed follow Antoine's advice and implement a different queue that has fewer features but is guaranteed to be usable by signal handlers and GC callbacks (including __del__). The nice part here is that a queue is mostly a wrapper around a deque anyways, and deque itself is reentrant. (At least one would hope so -- Antoine's patch to Queue assumes this too, and I can't think of a reason why deque would need to release the GIL.) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14976> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
