On Mar 8, 10:42 pm, Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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)
Or (almost) equivalently... while q: x = q.pop(0) q.extend(process(x)) -- Paul Hankin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list