On Aug 27, 4:55 pm, Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Or make the consumers daemon threads so that when the producers are finished > > an all non-daemon threads exit, the consumers do as well. > > How are the consumers supposed to know when the producers are > finished? Yes, there are different approaches like sentinels, but the > absence of a unified approach built into the library really does seem > like a deficiency in the library.
See effbot's reply. The task_done and join methods were put there for exactly this use case. Raymond -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
