Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 28, 5:30 pm, Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Another idea would be to have multiple queues, one per thread or per > > > message type "group". The producer thread pushes into the appropriate > > > queues (through an intelligent PutMsg function), and the consumer > > > threads pull from the queues they're interested in and ignore the > > > others. > > > > Unfortunately a thread can only wait on one Queue at once (without > > polling). So really the only efficient solution is one Queue per > > thread. > > > > Make an intelligent PutMsg function which knows which Queue (or > > Queues) each message needs to be put in and all the threads will have > > to do is Queue.get() and be sure they've got a message they can deal > > with. > > I do have one Queue per thread. The problem is the thread can not peek > into the Queue and select msg with certain ID first.
My point is don't put messages that the thread doesn't need in the queue in the first place. Ie move that logic into PutMsg. -- Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
