On Mar 8, 9:43 am, malkarouri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have an algorithm in which I need to use a loop over a queue on
> which I push values within the loop, sort of:
>
> while not(q.empty()):
> x = q.get()
> #process x to get zero or more y's
> #for each y:
> q.put(y)
Why not just do it like that? With a few changes it'll work fine:
while q:
x = q.pop(0)
for y in process(x):
q.append(y)
And consider collections.deque for q instead of a list, though it
shouldn't make much of a difference if the queue remains small.
Carl Banks
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