Op 2005-03-25, Paul Rubin schreef <http>: > 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?
And how is this semaphore going to be released if the timeout is reached? -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
