brad wrote: > Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > >> Why did you put an upper bound to the queue? > > For clarity. Explicit is better than implicit, right? In our design, the > queue should only have x number of things, so why not show that? Other > than that, the limit is arbitrary and is not needed.
Yes, but you are asking a bit more of Queue.Queue than its design is intended to provide. Normally a limit on the input side is used to allow the scheduling of a consumer thread that will remove items, thus allowing the producer to restart. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://del.icio.us/steve.holden --------------- Asciimercial ------------------ Get on the web: Blog, lens and tag the Internet Many services currently offer free registration ----------- Thank You for Reading ------------- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
