On Aug 11, 1:55 pm, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > EW wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > So here the P2 thread has ended and gone away but I still have his > > Queue lingering. > > > So on a thread I can use is_alive() to check status and use join() to > > clean up but I don't see any analogous functionality for Queues. How > > do I kill them? I thought about putting a suicide message on the > > Queue and then C1 would read it and set the variable to None but i'm > > not sure setting the variable to None actually makes the Queue go > > away. It could just end up sitting in memory unreferenced - and > > that's not good. Additionally, I could have any number of consumer > > threads reading that Queue so once the first one get the suicide note > > the other consumer threads never would. > > > I figure there has to be an elegant way for managing my Queues but so > > far I can't find it. Any suggestions would be appreciated and thanks > > in advance for any help. > > An object will be available for garbage collection when nothing refers > to it either directly or indirectly. If it's unreferenced then it will > go away. > > As for the suicide note, if a consumer sees it then it can put it back > into the queue so other consumers will see it and then forget about the > queue (set the variable which refers to the queue to None, or, if the > references are in a list, delete it from the list).
Ok great. I wasn't sure about the Garbage collection part of it. That's actually pretty easy. Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
