On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 6:11 PM, uuid <m8r-gqm...@mailinator.com> wrote: > The Queue module, apparently, is thread safe, but *not* process safe. If you > try to use an ordinary Queue, it appears inaccessible to the worker process. > (Which, after all, is quite logical, since methods for moving items between > the threads of the same process are quite different from inter-process > communication.) It appears that creating a manager that holds a shared queue > might be an option > (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/342556/python-2-6-multiprocessing-queue-compatible-with-threads).
Using a manager, or submitting a patch which adds priority queue to the multiprocessing.queue module is the correct solution for this. You can file an enhancement in the tracker, and assign/add me to it, but without a patch it may take me a bit (wicked busy right now). jesse -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
