On 2008-10-15, redbaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I run into problem with queue from multiprocessing. Even if I > queue.qsize() != 0 queue.get() still blocks and queue.get_nowait() > raises Emtpy error. > > I'm unable to cut my big part to small test case, because smaller test > case similair to my real app by design is works. In what conditions is > it possible? > > while qresult.qsize(): > result = qresult.get() #this code blocks! > doWithResult(result)
If you have more than one consumer the above code can block. The two consumers both see that there is an item present in the queue. One removes the item and the second blocks. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
