Re: alternative to JoinableQueue's please

2009-06-29 Thread Ethan Furman
ps: Thanks Raymond for the quick reply... and I feel rather apologetic for having bothered the list with this :S No need to feel that way -- many of us still learn from simple looking problems! :) ~Ethan~ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: alternative to JoinableQueue's please

2009-06-26 Thread Filipe Fernandes
Raymond Hettinger wrote: > [Filipe Fernandes] >> The reasons for using JoinableQueue I think are obvious. I want to >> block the main processing using queue.join() until the tasks that have >> been placed on the queue have been finished by the worker processes. >> >> I can't be the only one exper

Re: alternative to JoinableQueue's please

2009-06-26 Thread Raymond Hettinger
[Filipe Fernandes] > The reasons for using JoinableQueue I think are obvious.  I want to > block the main processing using queue.join() until the tasks that have > been placed on the queue have been finished by the worker processes. > > I can't be the only one experiencing this (besides Brian)... a

alternative to JoinableQueue's please

2009-06-26 Thread Filipe Fernandes
I'm currently using the multiprocessing package and I'm hugely impressed at its simplicity (thanks very much Jesse Noller). Although, it seems that there's a bug in JoinableQueue's which renders using it pointless over a regular Queue as per Issue 4660 http://bugs.python.org/issue4660 To re-iter