On Apr 16, 11:46 am, Piet van Oostrum <p...@cs.uu.nl> wrote: > >>>>> grocery_stocker <cdal...@gmail.com> (g) wrote: > >g> [cdal...@localhost ~]$ python > >g> Python 2.4.3 (#1, Oct 1 2006, 18:00:19) > >g> [GCC 4.1.1 20060928 (Red Hat 4.1.1-28)] on linux2 > >g> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>>>> import Queue > >>>>> queue = Queue.Queue() > > >>>>> while 1: > >g> ... item = queue.get() > >g> ... if item == 'done': > >g> ... break > >g> ... > >g> this > >g> is > >g> a > >g> test > >g> done > >g> [3]+ Stopped python > >g> [cdal...@localhost ~]$ kill %3 > >g> It appears that only item = queue.get() called. Ie, the block never > >g> advances to if item == 'done': > >g> like in the first example > > You don't put anything in the queue here. The lines that you type there > don't get magically into the queue. So therefore the queue.get blocks. > --
Yeah my bad. I misread the first code -(. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list