Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I started once, using the Timer class in the Threading Module to > break the lock. However the Timer class uses the same kind of > sleep-polling loop, to delay the exection and allow an intermediate > cancel, as the loop that is used in Queue.Queue, so that was no > gain.
I've never checked this code but it wouldn't have occurred to me that Queue uses any kind of timeout loop. Can't it work the obvious way with a semaphore? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
